A diagnosis of cancer is never easy. It is a scary word for a patient to hear, and it is a complicated diagnosis for a doctor to explain. Cancers differ depending on a number of factors, including how early the cancer is detected and where the cancer is. Over the...
Month: February 2014
Icy sidewalks in New York might lead to premises liability claims
With the cold winter months and the wintry precipitation that comes along with them comes an increased risk of slipping and falling on the ice and slick surfaces. Even something as simple as going to get groceries or medications can turn dangerous if the sidewalks and...
Brain death hard to understand, even for doctors, p3
We are continuing our discussion from our last post. The subject, brain death, came up a couple of weeks ago when two very sad cases made national headlines. No one involved in those cases is from New York, but people here have certainly struggled to understand what...
Brain death hard to understand, even for doctors, p2
We are picking up our discussion of brain death. The subject has made headlines in the past few weeks as two very different cases played out in national media. Neither case involves patients or providers from New York. We discussed them in our Jan. 21 post, but it...