Surgery is supposed to make things better. That is the premise every patient walks in with, and for the vast majority of procedures, it holds true. But when it does not, when a surgical team makes a preventable error that permanently changes a patient’s life,...
A family sits in a hospital room and hears the word sepsis for the first time. They are confused. Their loved one went into a nursing home for rehabilitation after a leg injury, not for a life-threatening infection. They want to know how this happened. The honest...
There is a moment, somewhere between the emergency room and the intensive care unit, when the people who love a spinal cord injury victim start doing mental math. They think about the surgery. The hospital stay. Maybe a few months of rehabilitation. Then they imagine...
When a Georgia Apartment Complex Ignores Known Dangers, The Law Doesn’t Have To When it’s time to get up in the morning and go to work, most people expect safety when walking to their cars. And when they come home work at the end of the day, few think...
How Catastrophic Truck Accident Verdicts Can Lead to Massive Jury Awards Large commercial trucks move through Georgia highways every day. Most drivers pass them without thinking twice. Yet when a crash involves an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer, the outcome can be...
