Robert E. Whitley Jr.

A personal injury attorney, who would provide with the strongest and determined lawful representation to anyone who is injured and seeks the help of an experienced attorney.

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Nursing home abuse has increased lately despite the fact that the government has made laws towards protecting their citizens; however, abuse is still happening. To provide you with the comfort you or your loved ones deserve, a Nursing Home Attorney at our firm can provide you with the service. I could provide you with a list of rights, or contact us through the provided links for a consultation. 

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Motorcycle accidents carry the most severity out of all the road accidents, but our firm is here to protect drivers. We are here to help bikers get the claims they deserve if an accident should happen. Everyone on the road has rights, so if you or a loved one has been in an accident, contact us see if you are owed compensation.

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All drivers, including truck drivers, have a duty to protect others when they get behind the wheel. Although most collisions between commercial vehicles and other cars are unintentional accidents, at times, some parties are more responsible than others. If you believe that someone is to blame for an accident that involved you or a loved one, contact an attorney.

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If a driver is not taking appropriate caution while driving to allow themselves to avoid hazards, they could be held liable for a resulting crash. Car accidents can have a serious and long-lasting impact on a person’s life. However, it is not necessary to suffer a life-altering injury to demand compensation. If a person suffers an injury due to an accident, they may have a valid claim.

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Motorcycle Crash Shows Bioethicist The Dark Side Of Quitting Opioids Alone

In 2015, Travis Rieder, a medical bioethicist with Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics, was involved in a motorcycle accident that crushed his left foot. In the months that followed, he underwent six different surgeries as doctors struggled first to save his foot and then to reconstruct it.

Rieder says that each surgery brought a new wave of pain, sometimes “searing and electrical,” other times “fiery and shocking.” Doctors tried to mitigate the pain by prescribing large doses of opioids, including morphine, fentanyl, Dilaudid, oxycodone and OxyContin. But when it came time to taper off the drugs, Rieder found it nearly impossible to get good advice from any of the clinicians who had treated him.

“We called everybody, and a bunch of them wouldn’t even talk to me,” he says. “And this includes the pain management team. They would not speak with me, and the message they sent through a nurse was, ‘We prescribe opioids but we don’t help with tapering.’ ”

Rieder likens his experiences trying to get off prescription pain meds to a game of hot potato. “The patient is the potato,” he says. “Everybody had a reason to send me to somebody else.”

Eventually Rieder was able to wean himself off the drugs, but not before receiving bad advice and going through intense periods of withdrawal. He shares his insights as both a patient and a bioethicist in a new book, In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle With Opioids.

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When other drivers fail to observe a motorcycle, are driving while intoxicated, or simply do not care, their actions can result in severe and life-altering injuries. A Raleigh motorcycle accident lawyer with experience handling these cases can help you fight for the compensation you deserve. En Español.

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Refusal of care

The thing I find most infuriating about current standards in long term care, is if a dementia resident has defecated and urinated everywhere and they’re dirty and soaked, if they freak out and say no to care, we can’t touch them.

In LTC we can’t restrain or sedate people, so we have to tip toe around this guys so we don’t get punched in the face all while trying not to smell him…

What I’ve learned today- Vick’s is great up your nose with a smelly patient, note to self keep a small bottle in my purse.

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Putting a family member in a nursing home is a difficult decision to make. Parents take care of their loved ones for years, and they want to be able to do the same for their parents. People take comfort in the fact that their loved ones are receiving the best care from equipped, capable, and compassionate professionals. Unfortunately, abuse is not an uncommon case in nursing homes. An experienced Winston-Salem, NC nursing home abuse lawyer will be dedicated to protecting the sickly and/or elderly. If you or a loved one is being abused by nursing home staff, it is your right to take legal action, and it is the duty of your injury attorney to ensure this does not happen to more residents in the future.