What To Do If The Hospital Overlooks a Traumatic Brain Injury
Video Transcript:
Christine Haas:
Are brain injuries always diagnosed immediately after an accident? We ask Arizona attorney Timothy Tonkin for AskTheLawyers Quick Question.
Timothy Tonkin:
No, actually, literature suggests that 80% of brain injuries are missed in the initial hospital setting, so it's important that people complain about what symptoms they’re having, they...
The brain is one of the most important parts of our body, and as someone that has been severely injured in a motorcycle accident, I can also understand how frightening an injury to the brain can be. The brain is our body's control center, and it's protection consists of floating in cerebrospinal fluid within a hard skull casing. Although this is protection is usually very good, it is still not 100%.
When your brain is injured, medical care can...
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