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CHICAGO, IL – After a week of trial in front of Judge Donald O’Brien, a urologist tendered his $1-million insurance policy on January 20, 2010, to settle a wrongful death case with the family of a deceased man arising out of the physician’s failure to timely diagnose bladder cancer.

In Russell v. Norris, M.D. and Northwest Suburban Urologists, Ltd. (Case no. 06 L 3887), Carmen Russell and Daniel Russell, Jr., the wife and son of Daniel Russell, reached a settlement with Jeffery Norris, M.D. and Northwest Suburban Urologists, Ltd. Attorney for the plantiffs was Stephan D. Blandin, of Romanucci & Blandin, LLC.

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CHICAGO – There is no real difference between the terms “concussion” and “mild traumatic brain injury,” yet the term doctors use makes a big difference in the seriousness with which the injury is treated, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics.

During the study, doctors tracked 268 children admitted to a hospital in Ontario, Canada, after suffering a head trauma. One-third of them was given the diagnosis of “concussion,” while the others got some variation of “traumatic brain injury (TBI).” Those with a diagnosis of “concussion” were 1-1/2 times as likely to be discharged from the hospital as those with a “mild TBI” diagnosis.

The study suggests that a children who’s given the diagnosis of concussion, the less like the family is to consider it a brain injury. These children may be sent back to school or allowed to return to normal activity sooner than they should.