Oncologist accountability for pandemic-related delays in diagnosis and treatment
Oncologists throughout the US are increasingly seeing patients who have advanced-stage cancers....
Read MoreOct 10, 2021
Oncologists throughout the US are increasingly seeing patients who have advanced-stage cancers....
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Potential lawsuits are a reality that even the best physicians must accept. An American Medical...
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Saying “I’m sorry” is the least you can do when you accidentally hurt someone. But in...
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Unfortunately for physicians, premiums paid for medical malpractice insurance will only increase...
Read MoreSep 24, 2021
It is a fundamental core value of most people to apologize when a mistake has been made through...
Read MoreSep 22, 2014
A surgeon emailed me the following:. OK, I know this is radical but consider my argument…...
Read MoreJul 25, 2014
A Manhattan jury found Stan Xuhui Li, MD, guilty of manslaughter for overprescribing painkillers...
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Physician leaders are supporting a new proposed federal law that aims to reduce litigation against...
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An anesthetized patient fell to the floor headfirst from an operating room (OR) table during a laparoscopic appendectomy in Scotland. The table had been tilted into an extreme head-down position to facilitate the operation....
Read MoreDec 28, 2013
Studies have shown that about 5% of autopsies in hospitals in the United States reveal lethal...
Read MoreSep 18, 2013
When a critical event occurs in professions other than medicine, detailed investigations are...
Read MoreJul 30, 2013
Nearly 1,400 physicians who were sued for medical malpractice share their experience in Medscape’s...
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Recent studies suggest that as many as 2% of discharges from acute care hospitals and EDs in the...
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You may have missed this when it first appeared. Experts from Harvard and the University of Southern California say assumptions made by some analysts that defensive medicine is not an important facet of the high cost of...
Read MoreMar 28, 2013
Tears rolled down my face as I came across an article written 2 years ago. A veteran pediatric nurse took her own life several months after administering a fatal overdose of an electrolyte to an infant. After investigations and...
Read MoreMar 12, 2013
Another paper on the subject of unnecessary preoperative laboratory testing appeared not long ago. A group from the University of Texas Medical Branch looked at more than 73,000 elective hernia repairs in the National Surgical...
Read MoreJan 28, 2013
Not long ago, I was called for jury duty. Although I was busy, I consider jury duty to be part of my civic responsibility and I did not try to avoid it. Well, another reason is that in my state, it is just about impossible to...
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Atraumatic headache is one of the most common complaints in EDs, but only a small subset of...
Read MoreJan 9, 2013
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, experts began to re-examine current approaches to providing care during disasters. A definitive standard of care for disaster victims has yet to emerge....
Read MoreDec 11, 2012
A recent survey published in Health Affairs found that 20% of nearly 2,000 physician respondents said that “they had not fully disclosed mistakes to patients for fear of being sued” in the past year. When I first heard about...
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