Legal Articles, Defamation & Slander
Are You Paying Too Much for Hospital Care?
Why are some patients billed Charge Master prices while others are given discounts and write-offs? The Hospital Charge Master is the mysterious menu of hospital prices for products and services.
So you Suspect Pharmacy Malpractice- What to Do
If you suspect pharmacy malpractice, a pharmacy misfill or mistake, or medication error, there are some important things you should do before contacting a malpractice lawyer.
You Suspect Medical Malpractice: What to Do Now?
Your loved one went to the hospital with a non life-threatening injury. Now he is dead. If you suspect something went wrong and medical malpractice, it can be confusing and difficult to know how to sort things out.
Methadone Overdose- What to Do
Signs and symptoms of methadone overdose often give the family warning signs that the methadone dose was too large, and the patient received a toxic overdose of methadone.
Suboxone Overdose Deaths
Suboxone has been marketed as a safer alternative to methadone, and less likely to cause an overdose death. Unfortunately, some physicians make mistakes in dosing suboxone with xanax or other benzos and this can cause fatal overdose.
Methadone Toxicity and Overdose Deaths
Methadone, more than other opiates, is a tricky drug for doctors to prescribe, because if doctors prescribe too much methadone, patients can die of methadone toxicity from an overdose of methadone.
Methadone Half-Life
Methadone can cause overdose deaths because of its pharmacology and lng half-life. Doctors need to be aware of the half-life of methadone before prescribing methadone, or patients could die of methadone toxicity.
Methadone Dosing
Methadone dosing errors are the single largest cause of methadone overdose by doctors in the U.S. Patients die from methadone overdoses and sometimes their families file overdose lawsuits when doctors prescribe too much methadone.
Why Don’t Doctor’s Check Methadone Levels in the Blood?
My loved one died of methadone toxicity or methadone overdose. The doctor never checked the blood level for overdose. Should the doctor have checked the methadone level in the blood to prevent this overdose death?
What Dose of Methadone is Lethal?
While each patient’s dose should be individualized for that patient, some high doses clearly have the potential to cause death. Any dose for a pain patient above 10 or 20 mg has the potential to cause death. Methadone can be safely dosed and need not cause an overdose death.