Phantom Limb Pain is a Real Challenge After Amputation
Catastrophic injuries are painful and can forever affect the life of an individual. For victims of negligence, few personal injuries can be as challenging to handle as the loss of a limb. Whether the amputation involves a leg, arm, finger, or toe, this type of injury affects the victim forever. Even following initial medical treatment…
Read MoreDangers of Oil and Gas Trucks on the Tennessee Highways
As our country continuously seeks to meet our substantial energy needs, oil and gas companies constantly extract oil from the ground. Activities such as drilling and fracking require the use of numerous trucks to haul oil from the drilling site to the refinery. These companies then use large tanker trucks to transport gasoline to stations…
Read MoreCommon Injury-Causing Mistakes in the Maternity Ward
Maternity wards are among the busiest departments within a hospital. These physicians and nurses are tasked with providing constant care for women in various stages of labor and delivery. With so much happening, staff members sometimes fail to adequately act in the best interest of the mother and child. While there are numerous mistakes that…
Read MoreThe Connection Between Maternal BMI and Childhood Epilepsy
Childhood epilepsy is a serious condition, affecting more than three million children nationally, according to KidsHealth.org. While many children outgrow the condition, others deal with the debilitating symptoms their entire lives. Children living with epilepsy have a higher death rate than children without epilepsy, so the recognition and treatment of risk factors is extremely important…
Read MoreProm and Graduation Season: Who is Liable for Teenage Car Crashes?
Spring has arrived, and young drivers will hit the Tennessee roads for such adolescent milestones as prom, graduation, and senior year parties. While these celebratory events should be filled with joy and memory-making moments, they far too often end in horrible tragedies at the hands of teen drivers. Inexperienced vehicle operation, coupled with poor decision-making,…
Read MoreLonger Trailers Could Lead to Increased Truck Crashes
Due to their substantial size and weight, tractor trailer trucks pose a serious danger to drivers on the Tennessee highways, due to their substantial size and weight. Yet there are efforts underway to increase the size of these accident-causing vehicles. According to reports, the Americans for Modern Transportation Coalition (AMT) is currently advocating to extend…
Read MoreDo Drivers Value Traffic Safety?
Every year, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety conducts a national survey to evaluate the opinions and attitudes of American drivers in relation to traffic safety. As in previous years, the 2016 Traffic Safety Culture Index finds that though people in the United States value safe travel and desire a greater level of safety, their…
Read MoreAre Hospitals Designed to Make You Sicker?
Hospitals are supposed to be sanctuaries for healing. When you go in for treatment, you expect that the facility will be adequately designed and maintained for the provision of quality medical care. However, a recent article in the New York Times is questioning whether or not hospitals are effectively designed to promote healing. From risk-enhancing…
Read MoreCar Crash Statistics for Memphis and Tennessee
Memphis is a great city. It’s the largest in Tennessee (just beating out Nashville as of May 2016 by around a thousand people), and the greater metro area boasts a population of 1,317,314 people as of 2014. Founded by Andrew Jackson, who would go on to be elected President of the United States, John Overton,…
Read MoreTexting and Driving Leads to Terrible Injuries in the Event of a Car Crash
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that at any given time there are about 660,000 Americans operating a mobile phone while driving. In 2014, there were 3,179 traffic fatalities and 431,000 injuries in motor vehicle crashes caused by distracted drivers. Researchers at the University of Utah have calculated that talking on a cell…
Read MoreHow to Spot Signs of Possible Medical Mistakes During Childbirth
A birth injury does not occur in a vacuum., and when one does occur, it can be a very scary situation. A birth injury might play out something like this. You and your partner are in the delivery room and something seems to be going wrong or maybe things have even been going wrong from…
Read MoreFAQs About Memphis Car Accidents Asked by Readers of the Blog
At Greer Injury Lawyers, PLLC, we do our best to keep our readers informed about road safety, current items in the news pertaining to cars such as recalls, tips for driving in bad weather, and the dangers of driving while distracted or drunk. But readers of this blog also have questions of their own, so…
Read MoreWould You Be Courteous to a Driverless Vehicle? Autonomous Cars and Aggressive Drivers Set to Square Off
As a driver, you have likely faced a situation where an aggressive driver cut you off in traffic or failed to yield the right of way. What might an autonomous vehicle (AV) do in the same situation? To answer the question of how an autonomous car might react and how other human drivers would interact…
Read MoreDo Laborists Reduce the Incidence of Birth Injury?
The use of laborists or OB/GYN hospitalists has been an emerging trend that began in the late 1990s and continues to grow in hospital labor and delivery suites across the United States. Laborists are OB/GYNs who are on staff usually on evenings and weekends or even 24/7 in some hospitals. The American Congress of Obstetricians…
Read MoreCatastrophic Injury from Rollover & Ejection Auto Accidents
Rollover accidents are some of the most serious kinds of car crashes with the highest fatality rates. In fact, each year more than 10,000 people are killed in rollover crashes. Those who are fortunate enough to survive a rollover crash often emerge with catastrophic injuries. While certain vehicles are more prone to rollover than others…
Read MoreHow long do I have to file my medical malpractice case in Tennessee?
As with most aspects of the law, this very simple question, “How long do I have to file a medical malpractice claim in Tennessee?” can be quite complicated to answer. If you think you or a loved one may be the victim of a medical malpractice, the best advice we can give is that you…
Read MoreAAA Survey Says Young Millennials are the Worst Behaved Drivers
In a year when U.S. traffic deaths had their steepest single-year increase in five decades (up more than 7%), a new report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety reports that 88% of young millennials (age 19-24) engaged in at least one risky driving behavior in the past 30 days. This makes them the worst…
Read MoreWhy You Need a Memphis Personal Injury Attorney When You Have Been Catastrophically Hurt
Millions of Americans suffer all kinds of injuries every day in the United States. Injuries from car, truck or bicycle accidents, dog bites, medical malpractice, and defective products can happen at any time. Typically, these injuries will heal and resolve themselves, and the person who was injured will get on with their lives. However, a…
Read MoreHundreds Die in Parking Lots and Garages Each Year Because of Distracted Driving
You’ve been there. You were in a parking space getting ready to back out. You checked both mirrors and turned to look out of the back window and all was clear, so you start inching out of the space – when out of nowhere, a car whizzes past. You hit the brakes. Your heart might…
Read MoreFailing to Diagnose a Mother’s Disease Left One Newborn with Permanent Brain Damage
A pregnant mother received a routine pap smear as a part of her prenatal care at Brevard County Health Department. Allegedly, a cytopathologist then examined the test and found cellular changes that were consistent with herpes simplex virus. Despite this finding however, a health department nurse gave the report of the test result as being…
Read MoreDealing with PTSD from an Auto Accident
If you have been in a minor car accident, you might have walked away feeling shaken and anxious. Imagine if you were involved in a major car crash that resulted in serious injuries and fatalities. According the Mayo Clinic, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an emotional and psychological disorder that is triggered by witnessing or…
Read MoreSacroiliac Joint Dysfunction from Rear-end Collisions
Sacroiliac joint dysfunction is a frequently missed diagnosis in victims of Tennessee car accidents. Rear-end car accidents are one of the most common causes of damage to the sacroiliac joint, which can cause severe pain in the lower back and buttocks as well as intense frustration, as the diagnosis so often eludes medical professionals. The…
Read MoreWhat Makes an Injury Catastrophic?
Thousands of Americans are injured each year in all sorts of accidents. Some people, despite an initially devastating injury, heal and get back to living their lives. Others who suffer serious injuries can end up requiring around the clock care. These people are unable to perform the most basic activities of daily living, and they…
Read MoreThe Life-Changing Impact of a Catastrophic Injury
Every single day, people get in car accidents with commercial trucks. These crashes can be so devastating that it is truly a miracle that some of these people make it out alive. If a person is fortunate enough to survive a crash with a commercial truck, they are oftentimes left with life-altering injuries, and with…
Read MoreDangers of Driving on Under-Inflated Tires
Driving on under-inflated tires is dangerous. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, almost 1/3 of passenger cars, light trucks and SUVs are being driven with at least one under-inflated tire. Under-inflation is one of the leading causes of tire failure. If tire pressure is too low, too much of the tire’s surface area…
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