Archive for June, 2010
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Discrimination in any form is still prevalent in our society despite sensitivity training and the straightjacket doctrine of political correctness applied in many companies and even sponsored by the government. As we see it, discrimination will never disappear. One common perception about discrimination against people impaired of hearing is that it is based on the fact that he the person has a hearing aid meticulously placed near or on his ear. This is totally incorrect because the discrimination revolves on the fact he could not hear what was said or he misunderstood the message due to his hearing impairment. People who don’t use any hearing aids tend to act in a weird manner and such causes a stream of laughter. Observe that in bar rooms, the jokes are pointed to the fact that someone did not hear properly the message rather than he is wearing a hearing aid. In other words, there is nothing wrong wearing a piece or a pair of hearing aids on one’s ear.
Let’s take a look at people with some eye defects. Correction glasses are used to conceal vision disorders, and there are very few bar room jokes against people wearing glasses. Actually, the use of glasses prevents the person from being a subject of ridicule and laughter. The same is true with hearing aids. People who wear them act as if there is nothing wrong with their hearing. Why? It is because the tools help them to act normal. There is no need to move closer to the speaker or place one’s palm as if the collect the sounds.
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Most of our clients think of the monetary compensation they can receive as a mere secondary goal, and they place finding the truth as their primary goal. They want to know why it happened, who to blame, how did it happened, what should have been done so that such an injury would never had materialized, and a hundred more questions. Actually, this is more difficult for our part as Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Attorneys because the truth can be tricky to extract sometimes. However, we always promise our clients that the truth will come out and every detail whether gory or pleasant will be heard by the complainant and the jury.
Defendants in medical negligence cases often present experts who will say that such an act is not negligent or that the injury will definitely occur despite the presence of negligence on the part of medical professionals. We, on the other hand, will prove to the court and the jury that the injury is due to negligence on the part of the medical professional or the hospitals. In the process of interrogations and obtaining dispositions, we can extract numerous information which we can assemble to support our theory.
Like we said earlier, we promise that we will get the full story aside from the settlement/ jury award. We understand the human need to know the truth before moving on. Some tragic events happen in our lives and we always want to know the truth. Failure to obtain it may result to psychiatric depression and the like, and we place importance in our quest for truth. In many of our cases, we discover minute details of the incident in the early stages of litigation, and such important discoveries bring a smile on our client’s face. Call a Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Attorney and let’s talk.
