Most everyone feels relieved when their doctor tells them something they’re concerned about is nothing serious – or nothing at all. However, what if your body is telling you something is very wrong, and your doctor continues to dismiss it? That’s been called “medical gaslighting.” It can happen to anyone, but it seems to happen...
Conrad Saam
Anytime you ride in a motor vehicle, you have some risk of getting hurt in a crash. Collisions are possible in front of your driveway or in the parking lot of the local supermarket. Most people try to ignore the constant threat of a motor vehicle collision. They feel confident that they can rely on...
Shortness of breath and chest pain can be really scary – and it’s even more frightening to hear that there’s a blockage in your heart that’s stopping blood and oxygen from getting where it needs to be behind these feelings. It’s become common for this kind of problem to be treated with stents (a small,...
Medical malpractice occurs when medical professionals fail to do their job, causing patients to experience delayed medical treatment or suffer from their doctors’ mistakes. Medical malpractice isn’t typically done out of spite, paranoia or annoyance, but rather from negligence, oversight and incompetence. Because of this, patients experience misdiagnosis or missed diagnoses all the time. You’re...
The few moments that you spend with your doctor when you have a serious health concern may be the most important part of your day. You may restructure your entire schedule around that brief appointment. For your doctor, it is just one of many appointments that make up their daily workload. Your doctor simply won’t...
You may have heard stories of someone suffering a soft tissue injury in a car crash and then not realizing it until much later. You may find yourself wondering how anyone could fail to notice the warning signs of whiplash or another serious injury. There are a few reasons that someone would overlook a major...
Commercial trucking crashes are frightening for the average driver. They know that their vehicle could be demolished and they could die in such collisions. Conversely, the people in the big trucks are less likely to suffer major injuries in a collision involving smaller passenger vehicles. Sometimes, drivers in passenger vehicles cause commercial truck collisions by...
Perhaps you are a physician’s assistant working at a small family practice office. The physician who runs the practice is your employer, and you suspect that they have been coming to work under the influence of drugs or alcohol sporadically. Maybe you work at a large corporate hospital and noticed that cost-cutting measures related to...