Archive for the ‘Prescription Medication’ Category

On I-40 near White Bridge Rd, last Wednesday the 12^th of January, a Nashville Tennessee man seemed to have suffered from a medical condition, and died while driving. No one else was injured in the single vehicle car accident, and there is no word on what caused the man to die driving.

Our sympathies go out to the family of this man. I am sure they wish they could have been with him in his final moments.

It’s an unfortunate fact that Tennessee drivers suffer from heat attacks, and strokes all the time while behind the wheel. Sometimes (like this) it’s an unavoidable tragedy and no one else is involved. Other times, others are needlessly injured because a driver has ignored doctor’s directions or not followed the directions that come with their prescription medication. Anytime someone gets behind the wheel on a Tennessee road, their responsibilities include not doing harm to others. Selfishly ignoring a medical condition and putting others at risk for your own convenience is inexcusable.

Ask your friends, family and friends for help when you are at risk and/or your meds are making driving difficult. They want to help.

Please go here to learn more about safety tips. And please visit this site to read more about car accidents in Tennessee.

1-800-377-HURT (4878)

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Anyone who has a personal injury in Tennessee is familiar with the routine. Multiple doctors and prescriptions. Not all the doctors are equally familiar with your case. There is often a rush to document your case and move onto the next patient.

To make the process of documentation easier, it’s common to use abbreviations. In the non-medical world we use abbreviations as well. For example (the abbreviation for “for example” is e.g.) in the online world abbreviations like OMG, and LOL are known to millions.  The difference is that there is only one accepted  definition for LOL, while in the medical world, there are lots of people “making things up”.

The misuse of abbreviations has gotten to be such a problem that the Joint Commission on Accreditation has issued a “do not use” list of abbreviations that are likely to be misinterpreted and can put patients at risk. (see here)

One aspect of being a Nashville personal injury attorney is that I have to read medical records, lots of medical records, and it’s the abbreviations that drive me crazy – when one abbreviation is used differently in two different files, its’ up to me to figure out what really happened.

If you or anyone you know has been killed or suffered a personal injury in Tennessee, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Nashville personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here. No matter what you do, before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster, read our materials on dealing with insurance adjusters first!

36-year-old Benny Ray Lawson of Goodlettsville, TN was killed in a single car crash on Saturday, August 14 according to the Cleveland Daily Banner.

Lawson, who was driving a 1998 Ford Mustang was the only one in the car at the time of the accident, and was thrown from the car during the incident said the Tennessee High Patrol’s report.

According to the report. Lawson had lost control of his vehicle, which left the roadway and overturned, ejecting him from the car. The report also states that Lawson was apparently not wearing a seat belt.

Our sympathy is to the family of the man involved in the crash.

This is yet another example of how not wearing your seat belt can significantly increase the likelihood of being ejected from a car during a roll over crash.

According to a study by Johns Hopkins University, seat belts can prevent people from being ejected from cars, and you are 25 times more likely to be killed or seriously injured in a crash if you are thrown from the vehicle.

A study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that ejections from the vehicle is one of the most harmful events that can happen in a crash. In 2002, 73 percent of passengers who were completely ejected were killed.

Only 1 percent of passengers who reported that they were properly wearing a seat belt were completely ejected from the automobile compared to 30 percent of unrestrained passengers.

A copy of the official police report may be obtained by contacting:

1-800-377-HURT (4878)

www.seriousinjury.com

Tennessee car accidents often involve DUI drivers or drivers who have been using drugs. It’s rare that they admit what they did or take responsibility.

That’s why your best choice is to hire a Tennessee attorney familiar with Tennessee automobile accident law and cases against drunk or drugged drivers.

A recent case of ours involved a client who was minding his own business on a weekday morning. He had just dropped off his daughter at school.  A young man crossed over, ran his car into my client and drove him off the road. The client’s car rolled several times.

The young man who hit him?  His story was that he had “fallen asleep”. He had started the night before and taken some Xanax that didn’t work – he met two women at a gas station who he asked for directions to an ER, they assured him he didn’t need to go to the ER, and told him they would take him home with them, give him some cocaine, and everything would be ok in the morning. The took him home. He spent the night with the two women, who gave him cocaine, and then the next morning drove him to his car. Then he fell asleep and hit my client. This was his excuse. No apology. Click here to see the real thing.

If you or anyone you know has been injured or killed in a Nashville car accident, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Nashville personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here.

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running.

Accutane is an acne medication, and has worked well for people who have acne. The problem with this drug is that is has side effects – it was withdrawn from the market in June 2009.

The latest side effect uncovered with accutane use is irritable bowel disease. Users of accutane (or its generic  isoretinonin ) are twice as likely to suffer from this disease. Irritable bowel disease affects the colon and can cause varying levels of discomfort, from mild to severe. To learn more about irritable bowel syndrome, click here. For more information on this story about Accutane, click here.

If you or anyone you know has suffered personal injury in Nashville or Tennessee, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Nashville (alternative Tennessee) personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here.

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved.