Modern medicine has come quite a long way, but human errors in hospital settings are ever present. Despite the many years of combined training, expertise and experience, there are still many opportunities for individual health care providers and care teams to make errors with consequences ranging from minuscule to deadly. In addition, the increasing reliance …
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What is Defensive Medicine & How Could It Affect Me?
Defensive medicine can be put into two categories: providing too much and providing too little medical care. Providing too much medical care (also known as “positive” defensive medicine) is the tendency of doctors to order arguably unnecessary services, such as expensive laboratory testing, radiology scans, diagnostic procedures, and to make referrals to other medical specialists. …
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Dog Bites: A Guide to Staying Safe
The friendliest person you know can still snap when pushed beyond levels of stress that they are used to – the same idea applies to dogs. Even the nicest dog you know could still one day be put into an unfamiliar, stressful, anxiety producing situation, and bite or attack to defend themselves. Preventing dog bites …
The Washington Hawaii Connection
Trade and cultural relationships have existed between the West Coast of the United States and the Hawaiian Island for hundreds of years. This includes a number of native Hawaiians who migrated to the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800’s to participate in the fur trade. In more recent times, travel and tourism between the State …
A Brief History of Our Building
Menzer Law Firm is located on the 8th story of the historic Hoge Building on the NW corner of Cherry St and Second Avenue, just east of Pioneer Square. This building was created in the era of financial decadence of the early 20th century, and boasts a little slice of Beaux-Arts architecture in this area …