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Catastrophic Injury Lawyer Shares 21 Everyday Things That Are Far More Dangerous Than You Think
When a professional speaks from real experience, you tend to listen, especially when the topic involves danger, risk, and real-world consequences. Sure, it’s always smart to double-check information, but sometimes experts are giving you the hard truth people don’t want to hear.
That’s exactly what one medical malpractice and catastrophic injury lawyer did when he took to TikTok to share the most shockingly dangerous things he’s seen in his career. From everyday products to hidden hazards most of us never think twice about, his insights opened a lot of eyes.
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#1
Anybody who's using any sort of keratin based hair treatment should be aware that in certain situations and based on the products, there's absolutely an established risk of developing cancer that includes lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, sinus cancer, throat cancer. And basically what has happened is that with a lot of these keratin based products there's either formaldehyde which is a known carcinogen, a known cancer causing chemical or a formaldehyde producing chemical that basically produces formaldehyde. And the reason that some of these keratin based products require or have formaldehyde is that chemically, the formaldehyde allows the keratin that occurs naturally in your hair, which is a protein, to bind with the keratin that's included as an ingredient artificially in the product. In that binding process, uh, which is brought about through the formaldehyde, is what causes the desired effect of the hair, the smoothing, the straightening, whatever you want to call it. So technically that formaldehyde has a purpose in bringing about the effect of the product. However, when formaldehyde is heated to certain levels, meaning through temperature, through an iron or whatever it's heated up, the vapors emit into the air and they can be inhaled and that's what can cause the cancer. Um, so they've really seen this demonstrated statistically and scientifically, especially in people who work in a salon or are applying these types of treatments all the time.
Lady Eowyn 5 days ago
Why use "uh" or "um" when writing? These are verbal stammers, and even if you think them, you don't have to write them.
Pheebs 6 days ago
Regular kerotin treatments do not contain these chemicals. Treatments used to straighten hair, which do not allow you to wash your hair for 24-48 hours, do. Always ask a stylist which version their salon uses. I believe it’s the Brazilian blowouts that contain this.
Rick Murray 5 days ago
Plus, those weird sinks can really mess up your neck if the positioning is wrong.
Mimi M 4 days ago
Just commented same. Thought that was what the post was going to say.
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#2
Water beads. If you haven't seen water beads, they're these little, teeny little plastic beads. They come in packets of hundreds or thousands, and they're supposed to be used for texture and tactile stimulation to help kids with sensory stuff. But when water beads are put in water, which is what they're for, they're originally made for agricultural purposes, like for farmers to put in soil to help you know, expand growth of plants underground. These teeny little beads blow up into big water beads. And there have been so many instances of kids swallowing one water bead or just a couple water beads and dying or having their airway blocked off or something else, because those beads are expanding in their airway or in their esophagus.
T'Mar of Vulcan 5 days ago
A couple of years ago kids I teach were putting them in their water bottles. Never mind the choking hazard, all I could think of was that putting that type of plastic in drinking water could NOT be a good idea!
Panda Bear 5 days ago
There was a video from awhile ago of a dog that managed to swallow a whole bag of water beads. They didn’t extend in the dog’s digestive tract (thank goodness) so the dog was able to expel them naturally. Looked very uncomfortable for the dog. (Video was taken by a vet)
Lara Verne 3 days ago
Aren't these the same beads people were putting in airsoft guns and shooting after people as "prank" ?
#3
As a medical malpractice lawyer, I literally see the worst of the worst. But one of the most common and scariest and most concerning cases I see is what we call a lack of informed consent. And basically all that means is that somebody underwent a surgery or a procedure, and the surgeon did not inform the patient of all of the risks of the surgery or the severity or permanence of the risks. And the best example I can give you is spine surgery, where somebody goes in for a spine surgery that carries a risk of paralysis, meaning that even if everything is done perfectly fine, there's still a risk that during the surgery, you could come out paralyzed. But the doctor doesn't tell the patient that before the surgery. And the patient, not knowing that, signs off on the surgery. This happens way more than you would think. And you're actually entitled to be compensated legally if that happens to you. Even if the doctor wasn't necessarily negligent during the surgery and there was a known risk because they didn't tell you about the risk.
StrangeOne 6 days ago (edited)
I was even told of this risk when I got an epidural. There should be no excuse for omitting that detail.
Debby Keir 5 days ago
I was told this before spinal surgery and declined the surgery. This is an informed decline.
Chich the witch 5 days ago
I've found that you have to dig into it a bit and ask questions. Speak with people who have had the procedure etc.
David Paterson 5 days ago
Telling a patient all the risks before an operation is called "a*s-covering". It doesn't improve the outcome of the surgery.
Auntriarch 5 days ago
Yes. But it gives me the information I need to assess the risk.
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Ria C. 5 days ago
Yeah, if I'd known the complications that my lower anterior resection surgery could have I would at the minimum waited to see at my next colonoscopy if the tumor returned. The first surgery the margins weren't clear so we did the LARS, the surgeon framed it as I'm "young and healthy" so we needed to move quickly. Well the pathology came back clean, now I have effed up bowels for nothing.
Lara Verne 3 days ago
My coworker had spine surgery due to injury. Something went wrong and some muscles in her left leg no longer work as they're supposed to. She can walk, but have to use cane. It's visible, her left leg is thinner than right.
Nicole Weymann 3 days ago
This reads like a lawyer fishing for clients 🤨 As someone who repeatedly had to explain stuff to people I'm convinced that a significant number of people complaining afterwards about lack of communication did, in fact, opt out of listening.
One thing the lawyer pointed out was the shocking number of unsafe toys being sold every year. With millions of toys hitting the market, children get their hands on them long before parents have time to check every detail. This makes safety more than just a concern, it’s a responsibility. Toys should be designed to protect children, not put them at risk. When small parts, sharp edges, or harmful materials slip through, the consequences can be serious. Kids trust what they’re given, and parents assume products on shelves are safe. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case.
#4
Insurance companies will wait for you to die. I'm not joking, I'm not being sarcastic, I'm not being dramatic. If you're an injured person and you have a pending lawsuit, the way the insurance company looks at it is, if you die, we'll pay less because you don't have ongoing medical care or ongoing, you know, lost wages or ongoing expenses. So they will literally. If they think there's a chance you will die before trial, they will wait. They will literally late wait for that reason.
Remi (He/Him) 5 days ago
Insurance companies are a huge scam. How on earth can they get away with taking people's money and not providing the service promised?
Laserleader 5 days ago
Because litigation is easy to postpone. Theres not enough judges, and delays are easy to get.
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#5
Any incline sleeper device. Fisher Price recalled their rock and play devices, which I think we're the most popular brand of this. But that's any sort of swing or bassinet that's at an incline that's marketed in any way that a baby can sleep in it. And that's just bad because the American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP has recommended for years babies sleep on a flat surface parallel to the ground. Because they don't have the neck strength when they're newborns, such that if they're sleeping at an angle their heads can tilt forward and they don't have the neck strength to lift it up. And that can close their airway off. Urban cases of asphyxia, asphyxiation, and death. Or if they roll to the side, same concept. They can't roll back, tilt towards center.
Pam Shar 5 days ago
A field of law concerning urban environments, including housing, zoning, environmental protection, and public health.
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Rali Meyer 5 days ago
yes, and before they were invented, babies died by the thousands daily??
Debby Keir 5 days ago
Yeah, but some of them probably from being popped on an inclned cushion in the corner of the couch....
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Tegu floating magnetic stackers. Uh, this is pretty scary cause these were made for kids age 6 months to 3 years. And they're little magnets that stack on top of each other that kids are supposed to play with and promotes tactile stimulation and just kind of like using their hands and motor skills. However, there were pieces of magnets that were attached to these stackers that could easily be detached. So those are recalled because ingestion of magnets for anyone, especially a kid, can pose a serious risk of internal injury or death.
Binky Melnik 5 days ago
This one doesn’t bother to explain the dangers of swallowed magnets. Let’s say one’s in the intestine when the kid swallows another. With strong magnets, when they get near each other, they’ll suddenly SNAP! and come together. This means that they’ll tear through the intestine in that fraction of a second, and ripped intestines is no bueno. 😰
WubiDubi 4 days ago
The snap is not that likely but kinking your GI tract and blocking it is far more likely.
Load More Replies...Different countries try to keep children safe in different ways, but not every system is equally strong. Europe, for example, has some of the toughest toy regulations in the world. Their rules don’t just scratch the surface, they get into the fine details of design, materials, and testing. The goal is simple: toys sold in the EU shouldn’t put any child at unnecessary risk. If a product doesn’t meet the standards, it doesn’t make it to the shelves.
#7
As a catastrophic injury and death lawyer, I deal with some of the most dangerous products and some of the worst situations in the world. But if you were to ask me what's the one product that I'm most afraid of or that I would never go near, it's without a doubt round up. The weed killer, the spray weed killer.
And if you don't know this already, there have been study after study that demonstrates a link between use of round up and non Hodgkin's lymphoma, NHL, a type of blood cancer. But the craziest thing that I've realized in representing numerous people in round up cases is that, like, the latency period, which is the period between when you're exposed to the chemical, in this case, round up, or the product round up, and the time that your cancer is diagnosed.
The latency period for NHL due to round up exposure can be 5, 10, even 20 years, meaning you might not even get the diagnosis until up to 20 years after you used the product. Which is crazy to me and also confusing to people who've been diagnosed because they think, oh, it's been so long, I can't file a lawsuit. But that's not necessarily true, because under the law, there's something called the discovery rule, which basically means that if you didn't know or reasonably shouldn't have known that the cause of your cancer was due to some negligence or some wrongdoing by another person, we're not going to hold you to the regular statute of limitations. So it is a product I would never touch. Round up. And they've said that they have a new mixture that changed the ingredients and makes it safer, while at the same time arguing in court that the original mixture and the original ingredients aren't dangerous.
StrangeOne 6 days ago
This actually does scare me. My mom's last husband (not my dad) landscaped the whole back and front yards. I mean, tore up the ground, laid out new grass, built a rock garden and plant gardens, and did some malathion fogging for mosquitoes and canker worms. I was in Junior High. About a year after getting my first period I noticed it was getting very light, then non-existent. At the time, I was very embarrassed about it. I thought maybe it was nothing to worry about and that it was a good thing, so my folks didn't have to buy me so much pads every month. It was shortly after they had gotten a divorce (when I was 15) I finally got up the nerve to mention it to my doctor. After some tests I was diagnosed with prolactinoma. I had developed a benign cyst in my pituitary gland. My body basically thinks it's pregnant except no baby. No real investigation determined the exact cause, however not only was my mom's d**k husband fogging pesticides, the city was also fogging city streets.
StrangeOne 6 days ago (edited)
Malathion is known as a heavy carcinogen and a hormone disruptor. The city has started using a different pesticide and reduced fogging frequencies. Not only that, her husband also scratched the s**t up of my mom's teflon pan, and cooked with it often. I'm surprised I'm not littered with cancer.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 5 days ago (edited)
One should read what scientists are saying. It's definitely not conclusive, and quite safe if used as per instructions. Many scientists are extremely scathing of lawyers in this, especially litigation culture in America. I'm sure I'll get the tinfoil hat brigade voting me down, but do read outside of social media and even mainstream news. It's more complex than made out.
David Paterson 5 days ago
I agree. It's the insecticides that are deadly, not the herbicides. Unless directly swallowed.
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Nikki Sevven 4 days ago
It's important to note that you can use this product as a spot treatment for invasive plants without risk. Basically, you cut the invasive plant, then apply a tiny amount to the cut end. And I do mean tiny. Dab it on with a cotton swab. It's the only way to get rid of things like Chinese bittersweet or kudzu without kîlling every other plant in the vicinity.
Mook The Mediocre 5 days ago
It's not particularly Roundup that is the problem -- it's the main ingredient: Glyphosate.
#8
Obstetricians are the top medical specialty that I personally see getting sued most often. And this is your traditional birth injury case, where the baby is in distress and is not delivered soon enough. And as a result, the baby suffers catastrophic brain. Brain damage. And that happens way more frequently than you would imagine if you are in this field or you are in medicine.
Karen Bryan 5 days ago
It happened to my parents back in 1951. No lawsuit. Few people even thought about suing back then. I was 5 when my sister was born, and I remember what Mom and Dad went through, knowing something was wrong, seeing specialists (who didn't help). Do not get born on New Year's Eve. No MD available, and the nurses tried to delay the delivery. Without today's monitoring systems, nobody knew the cord was wrapped around baby's neck. My sister made it one year, seven months, and one week.
Auntriarch 5 days ago (edited)
Same issue but we were lucky. My brother was born in military hospital, and they weren't shy about diving in with the knife. If he'd been born in maternity home that I was, we'd probably have lost him and my mother.
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Commenting to Anne: Home birth is even more dangerous. You have the risk described plus a bunch of others. Why would you risk the life and health of yourself and your child like that?
Bartlet for world domination 5 days ago
In a different comment, Anne claims to have had C-sections forced upon her. The plot thickens.
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Spittnimage 5 days ago
The OB almost dropped my granddaughter when she was born. She slipped out of OBs hands after being born and fell to about 2 inches above the floor before the doc caught her. Need cushioning on the floor, babies are slick when they come out.
#9
Anything with button batteries. Button batteries are those little circular batteries that are about that big, and you can find them in a whole host of kids toys, even though it's not always obvious when you buy the toy that they're in there. The reason that button batteries are so dangerous is that they can easily be swallowed, and that when they are swallowed, they often get lodged in the esophagus or the trachea of the child. And due to the chemical composition of these particular batteries, they can, uh, erode and burn through the airway or the esophagus in an extremely fast amount of time. And that can be an emergency that can be deadly. There have been a ton of cases about button batteries
SleepyVampire 6 days ago
My friend had a son who, when he was three, was experiencing chronic ear infections, bad ones, his ears were inflamed and leaking fluid and he was screaming in pain, couldn't sleep, it was so bad. Finally doctors did some digging and found button batteries stuck way down in BOTH of his ears. Corroded and burning his ear canals. They were able to remove them but still aren't sure the extent of the damage to his ears and hearing.
JB 5 days ago
They cause tissue death surround them because they are batteries, with electrical current, and your body tissues are just conductive enough to get slowly k****d by the charge of a button battery. Go look up timelapses of button batteries shoved in hot dogs - it's terrifying and fascinating at the same time.
Remi (He/Him) 5 days ago
I know a case of a two year old who swallowed one, it got stuck in his esophagus burning through it. Poor kid was in intensive care for a long time and had to be fed through a stomach port for something like a year, but fortunately survived.
Robin Roper 3 days ago
These can be very dangerous especially for children and I use these for my hearing processors. They now come in "child proof" plastic holders that are next to impossible to open to access the batteries. I've actually cut myself several times using scissors to get into the d**n packages.
Binky Melnik 5 days ago
Perhaps where you live; in the US, you can buy several in a dollar store for a dollar. They’re not expensive at all here. (If they’re expensive where you live, perhaps it’s a good thing, at least if you have kids.)
Load More Replies...The EU Toy Safety Directive is the backbone of these rules. First adopted in 2009 and fully rolled out by 2011, it reshaped how toys could be made and sold. By 2013, strict chemical safety requirements became mandatory, tightening protection even further. The directive ensures that companies have no room to cut corners on safety. It’s not optional, and every toy sold in the EU must comply. For parents, this means greater peace of mind. For companies, it means they are held accountable from the design table to the factory line.
#10
The insurance company lawyers sometimes can get paid by your money from the insurance money that you receive for being injured. This is called an eroding policy. An eroding policy. It basically means that, um, the lawyers for the insurance company get paid out of the funds that you would get paid for your injury. So let's say there's a million dollar insurance policy for your injury. If it's in a rotting policy, I've had situations where the lawyers go, yep, well, it's down to 850,000 now because we've incurred 150,000 in legal fees. That's allowed. And it comes right out of the same recovery that you would get.
StrangeOne 6 days ago
Better than paying out of pocket. At least you could, then, afford to pay the lawyers.
#11
Youbeien crib mobiles. Everyone knows what a crib mobile is. It goes above the baby's crib and there's little things that baby can reach up and play with. So this was recalled in September 2025 because of button battery risk. There were actually button batteries in this product that could be accessed without a screwdriver or without a tool. They were in a little remote piece that goes with the mobile that a kid could get a hold of and access hypothetically without a screwdriver or tool. If you don't know about button batteries, they're horrifically dangerous. If they're swallowed or ingested, they can burn chemical holes in a matter of seconds or minutes in a baby's esophagus or trachea causing serious, serious injury or death.
For All Pedernity 4 days ago
"Everyone knows what a crib mobile is." Goes on to explain what it is anyway.
#12
The Evermore Surprise Eggs. These were these little play toy eggs like this that had a little metal air airplane inside, just kind of a little trinket. The problem is that the lead levels In the airplane cause it was made out of lead, exceeded federal limits. And one of the things that you need to know about this is that even if your kids not directly putting that lead metal thing in their mouth, the hand to mouth contact that occurs with children is sufficient scientifically for a child to ingest lead.
Laserleader 5 days ago
Yeah, we have a rule that says anything non-edible shouldn't be in an edible object that is intended for children. Seems weird, but kids everywhere were purposefully eating tide pods, so an eating dare was bound to happen.
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David Paterson 5 days ago
Lead ingestion these days is a non-existent problem. It has to be occupational exposure in a smelter to be dangerous. Significant daily lead exposure for two or more years is what we're talking about here.
Debby Keir 5 days ago
Yup, we nailed it *In 2007, Mattel recalled millions of toys, including Fisher-Price products, due to excessive lead in surface paints and small, powerful magnets that could be swallowed. The lead paint scandal involved a specific subcontractor and led to a global recall of millions of toys, a major apology to China, and subsequent reviews of toy safety standards. The company eventually settled lawsuits for approximately $50 million.*
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The directive covers a huge range of possible hazards, leaving very few gaps. It looks at both general and specific risks—generally meaning anything that could affect the health or safety of children or caregivers, and specific meaning risks like choking, mechanical injuries, chemical exposure, electrical issues, and even fire hazards. If a toy can break, be swallowed, burn, leak toxins, or harm a child in any way, the regulations demand that the issue is addressed. These standards exist because real injuries have happened in the past. And the lawyer’s stories show why rules like these matter.
#13
ER doctors, emergency room doctors are the top medical specialties that I personally see getting sued most often. And almost always when there's a case against an ER doctor, it's not that they did something improperly, it's that they failed to do something. They failed to order an X ray, they failed to order a brain MRI. They failed to consult a specialist like a neurologist or a neurosurgeon. And then something really bad happened cause they Failed to do that. It's not usually against an ER doctor, an improper performance. It's usually a failure to do something.
Zig Zag Wanderer 5 days ago
Has nobody ever wondered why we don't have this problem commonly in civilised countries?
Chich the witch 5 days ago
Do people sue the insurance companies in the US when they refuse/delay procedures?
Tyranamar Seuss 4 days ago
Yes. But the insurance companies win by fighting a war of attrition. They fight until all the litigants resources are spent and then they win the case. Also, when you sign up for insurance you sign a clause that says you will settle through mediation. So the insurance companies put the cases through a biased mediator and people come out with almost nothing.
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Heart attack. So we think about chest pain is one of the most obvious symptoms of a heart attack. And that's true. But there are a couple other subtle but important signs of impending cardiac arrest. And those are atroponent level, which is a certain blood value that's taken that, when elevated, can indicate cardiac arrest or damage to the heart muscle. And then also I see a lot of times, uh, jaw pain or teeth pain or molar pain. So, as I'm sure you can imagine, the. The heart attacks pretty self explanatory as to how that can be dangerous.
Zig Zag Wanderer 5 days ago (edited)
How do injury lawyers spin getting involved in heart attacks? Is it when people get their bills?
Remi (He/Him) 5 days ago
If a medical professional sends someone having heart attack symptoms home saying it's nothing, I'd guess
Load More Replies... Norfolk and good 5 days ago
Although they're more common in men, heart attacks in women are more likely to be fatal, because women are more likely to be misdiagnosed and their symptoms attributed to anxiety instead.
Binky Melnik 5 days ago (edited)
I would never, ever use this particular lawyer for anything. All the “um”s, the repeating of phrases, and the errors make me think this lawyer graduated at the bottom of his class. It’s not “atroponent level,” but rather “treponin level.” (I know this because I thought I was having a heart attack once; it turned out to be awful cramping in my ribs from hunching over soldering all day. They checked my treponin to see whether it was a H/A.) This lawyer could at least have preordered his work. Geez.
Mook The Mediocre 5 days ago
"atroponent" ? --- That's an interesting word that no dictionary of mine (or the internet) knows.
Anna Drever 4 days ago
Maybe they’ve used one of those voice recognition typing thingies. I’m having a brain fart but you know what I mean. 😀
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Surgeons are the top medical specialty that I personally see getting sued most often. I think a lot of people assume, oh, there's surgery. So surgeons are just messing up left and right during the surgery. And although I do see cases involving a negligent performance of a surgery or an improper technique leading to injury during surgery, or what we call intraoperative mistakes or errors, there's so many things that can go wrong. Preoperatively, leading up to the surgery, they didn't draw the blood, they didn't check the, uh, INR levels or their clotting factors, so the person was more susceptible to bleeding, and they shouldn't have gone forward anyway. Or postoperatively, after the surgery, they failed to monitor their airway, and a patient, uh, went into respiratory distress and suffered a brain injury. There's so many things with surgery that are just inherently risky, and there are a lot of errors that can be made.
UKGrandad 5 days ago (edited)
The current #7 on this list starts "Obstetricians are the top medical specialty that I personally see getting sued most often." This one starts "Surgeons are the top medical specialty that I personally see getting sued most often." #14 starts "ER doctors, emergency room doctors are the top medical specialties that I personally see getting sued most often." This guy must be a terrible lawyer if he can't keep track of what he's saying.
Hugo 5 days ago
Well, lawyers in the USA don't have a very good reputation.
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This guy uses speech to text and then doesn't bother to proofread. It's driving me nuts.
Even allergens are taken seriously. Toys sold in the EU cannot contain 55 banned allergenic fragrances, including natural extracts like fig leaf or treemoss. These might seem harmless, but for sensitive kids, the effects can be dangerous. Beyond that, official safety standards also dictate what warnings should appear on toys, how they should be worded, and exactly where they must be placed. It’s not just about selling a product, it’s about making sure parents know any potential risk upfront. Clear rules protect everyone involved, especially children who can’t speak for themselves.
#16
One of the most common cases I see in the type of infection that we're talking about varies, but generally speaking, is a failure to diagnose what I'll call a spinal infection or a spinal cord infection. And that could be meningitis, that could be transverse myelitis. These are different types of infections that can originate in the spinal cord or permeate to the spinal cord or affect the spinal cord, whether or not they start there. Um, but the symptoms are often similar. Extreme back pain, um, you can have numbness in the legs or lower extremities, tingling, um, spasms, constipation, bowel dysfunction, bladder dysfunction, uh, fever, stuff like that. That can indicate a spinal cord infection. And the primary way to diagnose this sort of infection is through imaging of the spine, whether that's MRI, most likely most sensitive, best and most efficient, or CT scan, which can sometimes show you that there's something there, but maybe less sensitive. And I see so many cases with patients going into the emergency department with these acute symptoms that really are textbook meningitis or textbook miliary or textbook myelitis or textbook, you know, spinal cord infection. Some sort of pathology in the spinal cord of an infectious nature. And there's no MRI ordered, there's no CAT scan ordered, there's no work up at all, and the patients are sent home. And the problem with these cases is that in a really short amount of time, it can progress. The infection can progress and cause a permanent spinal cord injuries to where someone is paralyzed, um, sometimes permanently, for the rest of their life, sometimes with what we call bowel, um, incontinence or bladder incontinence, where they can't control their, their bowel or bladder. And this can really be fixed easily and diagnosed easily. I just see that it's dismissed and missed
Powerful Katrinka 5 days ago
This happened to me. I developed a huge staph infection inside my spinal column after having a discectomy. I was in excruciating pain, but my orthopedic surgeon wrote it off as d**g-seeking and refused to pursue it. It got worse and worse until I could barely walk. Finally went to a different surgeon who ordered a CT scan. The minute he saw the results he called and told me he’d meet me in the ER. I was in the hospital for 6 weeks, and convalescent hospital for 2 months after that. I didn’t sue, but the team of physicians who treated me filed a complaint themselves against the first surgeon, who had his Arizona license to practice revoked.
Binky Melnik 5 days ago
“these acute symptoms that really are textbook meningitis or textbook miliary or textbook myelitis or textbook, you know, spinal cord infection”: Okay; I didn’t do anything to deserve this t*****e. I’m gonna go read something written by someone with a functioning brain. Even random tweets are better written than this.
#17
Failure to diagnose and treat a pulmonary embolism. So pulmonary refers to the lungs, and embolism is a blood clot, basically. So pulmonary embolism is a blood clot in the lung, and it's actually one of the most common conditions that emergency rooms see. It's also extremely dangerous and deadly and can kill you pretty quickly. So there are a couple different ways that this can be diagnosed. On imaging, um, and also, uh, via EKG. There are certain signs and symptoms that often times get missed by providers. People are discharged or, uh, sometimes die from pees in the hospital that haven't been diagnosed yet.
Debby Keir 5 days ago
I've seen it happen in a hospital with medical staff present and it was so quick there wasn't a darn thing they could do. (no one got sued)
Tyranamar Seuss 4 days ago
Die from PE's. Not pees. How lazy can you get? Doing a talk to text article and not even bothering to proofread. I hope no one paid this person for this c**p.
Nikki Sevven 4 days ago
I had a PE in 1990 following the Caesarean birth of my daughter. The ER diagnosed it almost instantly, and I was immediately admitted and started on heparin.
Val 4 days ago
This actually happened to a friend of mine. She had this nasty cough that wouldn't go away and her doctor kept giving her antibiotics. One night, she couldn't breathe, her kids called 911, and she passed away at the hospital from a pulmonary embolism. She was one of the best person I have ever known. This was three years ago. I miss you so much, Wendy.
Jayne 5 days ago
Signs a PE is probably close (that I know of): Increasing difficulty to breathe when walking up a flight of stairs (regardless of weight), persistent blue hue on the lips, increased sense of exhaustion, dizziness after bending over. Source: my mum who had one in 2013 and another in April 2025. She flatlined for a minute during the first one, broke her leg after falling due to the second one. She (and I) both have 'sticky blood platelets' syndrome. The first time she was prescribed 4mg of blood thinners (which was not enough!). Now she's on Xarelto 20mg and I take Aspirin Protect. Get tested if you can.
Binky Melnik 5 days ago
“People are discharged or, uh, sometimes die from pees in the hospital”: This is an excellent example of something that woulda been caught by proofreading. “Dies from pees”? How is any of this sposta help anyone if we can’t UNDERSTAND the word salad in this article? And “um” and “uh” have no place in written material except for novels.
#18
Insurance companies they put a price on your case early and up front, and this is called a reserve. And they basically look at your case when it's filed or when it comes across their desk, and they estimate how much they think they're gonna have to settle the case later on. And that can matter, because as you get into a case, and as I litigate and take depositions and start to draw blood, so to speak, that case amount can get way higher, meaning the amount they're gonna have to pay To settle the case can get way higher. And they might have to go adjust their reserve internally. And that can require them going up the ladder and talking to all these sorts of bean counters, so on and so forth.
Becky Samuel 6 days ago
If this is the level of writing clarity that is required to be a lawyer then I truly worry. This is illegible, incoherent babble that has clearly not been proofread or checked at all. How did something this shoddy get chosen to be featured?
In the United States, toy safety is also enforced through law. Section 106 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008 made toy safety standards mandatory nationwide. This means manufacturers must meet specific criteria before a product reaches consumers. The law set the bar for what materials could be used, how products should be made, and what hazards must be eliminated. While enforcement varies, the intention is the same as everywhere else: protect children before injuries occur.
#19
There's one product that I would say that right now is showing us the most dangerous consequences over decades and decades of use in terms of how dangerous it can be and why, and that's round up, which is the common weed killer. You may have seen commercial commercials for Roundup where they're spraying it on the weeds. You might just think, oh, what's the big deal? The big deal is that Roundup or glyphosate and different combinations of the ingredients in Roundup have been linked to causing certain types of blood cancers, specifically non Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is a subgroup of blood cancers that encompasses many, many different kinds of blood cancers. Um, again, that's not Hodgkin's lymphoma, also known as NHL. And the people who are getting this type of blood cancer, people who have used the product for a significant period of time, and it's really astounding. I'm handling these cases right now. It's really astounding the level of knowledge that the company, Monsanto, the company that made round up was Monsanto. The level of knowledge that the company knew about the fact that this was a dangerous, toxic, and cancerous chemical, which they never told anybody. About. They never warned about it. They never put it on their warning label. And low and behold, now there are thousands of cases involving this. And I see this affecting a lot of people in Pennsylvania, but also all over the country.
#20
Failure to timely diagnose and treat what we call a subdural or intradural hematoma. And that's just a fancy word for a brain bleed, a bleeding within the brain. So this can happen for all sorts of reasons. I'm sure you can imagine trauma is the most obvious cause of bleeding the brain, but it can also happen for all sorts of other reasons. Like hypertension can cause vasoconstruction, meaning that the veins and arteries are too tight and there's a perforation or bleed. There are many reasons that Subdural hematoma occur. The symptoms can range from extreme headache, often times described as like the worst headache that they've ever had, as well as nausea and vomiting, visual disturbances, other neurologic symptoms. But the gold standards for diagnosing a brain bleed is a CT scan of the of the head, and that can usually pick up a brain bleed. So I see these cases where there's symptoms of brain bleed and they don't even order the imaging and the person dies or suffers a catastrophic, irreversible brain injury. Or where they do order the CT scan, there's a bleed demonstrated, but the radiologist or the ER doctor looking at the image fails to see that bleed and fails to detect it.
The CPSIA includes requirements covering flammability, toxicity, chemical exposure, and physical hazards. Toys must be tested to make sure they don’t catch fire easily, contain dangerous levels of harmful substances, or break into swallowable pieces. It may sound standard, but these rules were put in place because many toys once failed these basic safety checks. When the cost of failure is a child getting hurt, regulations stop being bureaucratic, they become critical. The lawyer has seen what happens when safety rules aren’t followed, and the damage can be lifelong.
And this doesn’t stop with toys. Around the world, more products and services are being held to higher safety standards as governments learn from real cases. Household appliances, medical devices, children’s furniture, even playground surfaces are being reexamined. As the lawyer points out, danger can come from the most ordinary things we use every day. When professionals who deal with injury cases warn us, it’s usually because they’ve seen the worst side of neglect. Their stories remind us that safety rules exist for a reason, and they matter more than most people realize.
#21
A lawsuit that I'm litigating right now on behalf of a family of a horribly brain damaged little kid who choked on a Candyland gummy dot which was lodged in her throat for a prolonged amount of time and she suffered what we call an anoxic brain injury meaning a brain injury due to a prolonged lack of oxygen and I wanted to share with you just a little bit about the case and get your thoughts on it genuinely but I also wanted to then tell you about other similar cases that have come down the pike with these types of cases that may surprise you so long story short this Candy Land like the board game gummy dots were bought by um the stepfather of this child who then gave them to three of the kids one of whom was the youngest who was about 2 years old and the stepdad then dropped the kids off with the mother who's my client and there was no warning label on these candies that there was any sort of age range whatsoever making it seem as if this was something safe for any kid of any age to eat so the youngest takes a bite out of one is chewing and then all of a sudden they realize that she's not breathing so they rush over to her and they try to you know do chest patting and do the Heimlich and it won't come out so they rush her to the hospital where it had to be vacuumed out essentially by the doctors but not before it caused irreversible permanent brain damage and she's now basically unable to move unable to speak unable to walk unable to eat orally has a tube feed she will be permanently disabled for the rest of her life so the question is why not include a warning label for an age range? why not say this this product is not safe to eat for any child under three or under two? why not do that if you're the company? and also do you think that a company should have to do that because at what point do you draw the line between what's common sense and what the company has a duty to warn about in terms of what kind of food a parent should be given to their child? I will tell you that there were a couple verdicts in California involving a similar situation where there was a gel like candy that was excessively sticky and a child choked to death there was a 50 million dollar judgement entered in one case where a child choked to death and I think it was a 16 million dollar verdict in another case where a child choked to death so I wanted to share that cause I feel like a lot of people are quick to blame the parents and think there's no real claim here but it makes you wonder how 12 jurors or how however many jurors were there in California came to those conclusions in two separate cases where the family won
Norfolk and good 5 days ago (edited)
I just clicked on the link and it was a Tiktok video of op speaking. I'm guessing they've used some sort of speech to text AI.
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Andrew Keir 4 days ago
I'm reluctantly joining the crowd who see this OP as severely unskilled in the writing department.
What do you think ?
amy lee 6 days ago
After the 3rd Uh... I had to stop reading. How many did other people get through?
pat hayes 6 days ago
yeah...it was a bit much to be honest- could have been condensed better.
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quentariel 5 days ago
I hope the quality of the articles isn't going to be like this in the future, this is just abysmal. And if you use AI to do your job, least you can do is to actually check if the sentences make any sense and remove all those extra uhs/ums.
Becky Samuel 6 days ago
Who the heck wrote these? Because they were incoherent and riddled with errors.
Emma London 4 days ago
and "uh" -words littered in there? It's like someone dictated these to a writing program and never bothered to edit them.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 5 days ago (edited)
I hope AI wasn't involved. I mean I would hate to think that utter cråp was being generated for us by AI....
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liam newton-harding 4 days ago
@BP, Nikita Manot, Viktorija Ošikaitė and Jonas Žvilius, didn't even bother to proofread your chatGPT prompts, did you?
Betty Spaghetti 5 days ago
“AI, AI, AI”… No, these items were voice-to-text software generated from TikTok videos. You people don’t even know what technology you’re whining about! Lol
Tyranamar Seuss 4 days ago
I knew it was voice to text but I had no idea from where. And I still don't understand why Bored Panda can't hire an actual human proofreader to go through these articles. And the site is practically unusable bc there are so many adds. What are they doing with all that revenue? Clearly not hiring writers or proofreaders.
Load More Replies... Emma London 4 days ago
These medical malpractise cases happen all the time also outside USA, but these are not liable for personal lawsuits, or even suing the hospital. If there was a malpractice, the medical professional might be punished by a investigative board with for example, taking away a doctor's medical license. Also the patient might get a relatively small sum as a compensation for pain and ache, or a lifetime monetary support from an insurance company or the goverment if they were permanently injured. But doctors are almost never personally sued because these problems are primarly seen as systemic errors. Which in my oppinion, is much better. Because for example if a child dies because of malpractise, it's much better that we investigate the reason and change procedures to make sure it won't happen again, than to grant for an idividual victim a huge amount of money and possibly continue with the same methods.
amy lee 6 days ago
After the 3rd Uh... I had to stop reading. How many did other people get through?
pat hayes 6 days ago
yeah...it was a bit much to be honest- could have been condensed better.
Load More Replies... quentariel 5 days ago
I hope the quality of the articles isn't going to be like this in the future, this is just abysmal. And if you use AI to do your job, least you can do is to actually check if the sentences make any sense and remove all those extra uhs/ums.
Becky Samuel 6 days ago
Who the heck wrote these? Because they were incoherent and riddled with errors.
Emma London 4 days ago
and "uh" -words littered in there? It's like someone dictated these to a writing program and never bothered to edit them.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 5 days ago (edited)
I hope AI wasn't involved. I mean I would hate to think that utter cråp was being generated for us by AI....
Load More Replies... liam newton-harding 4 days ago
@BP, Nikita Manot, Viktorija Ošikaitė and Jonas Žvilius, didn't even bother to proofread your chatGPT prompts, did you?
Betty Spaghetti 5 days ago
“AI, AI, AI”… No, these items were voice-to-text software generated from TikTok videos. You people don’t even know what technology you’re whining about! Lol
Tyranamar Seuss 4 days ago
I knew it was voice to text but I had no idea from where. And I still don't understand why Bored Panda can't hire an actual human proofreader to go through these articles. And the site is practically unusable bc there are so many adds. What are they doing with all that revenue? Clearly not hiring writers or proofreaders.
Load More Replies... Emma London 4 days ago
These medical malpractise cases happen all the time also outside USA, but these are not liable for personal lawsuits, or even suing the hospital. If there was a malpractice, the medical professional might be punished by a investigative board with for example, taking away a doctor's medical license. Also the patient might get a relatively small sum as a compensation for pain and ache, or a lifetime monetary support from an insurance company or the goverment if they were permanently injured. But doctors are almost never personally sued because these problems are primarly seen as systemic errors. Which in my oppinion, is much better. Because for example if a child dies because of malpractise, it's much better that we investigate the reason and change procedures to make sure it won't happen again, than to grant for an idividual victim a huge amount of money and possibly continue with the same methods.
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