Doctor sues former hospital for defamation
Dr. William Husel is suing Mt. Carmel Health System and its corporate parent Trinity Health for...
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Dr. William Husel is suing Mt. Carmel Health System and its corporate parent Trinity Health for...
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Astronomer and co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Didier Queloz doesn’t think we...
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Do not put stuff in your urethra A 14-year-old Chinese boy placed some magnetic beads in his...
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A 60-year-old woman presented to an emergency department with chest pain. At a wedding the day...
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Trampolining is not a team sport A 12-year-old boy was jumping on a backyard trampoline and...
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A woman in New Zealand suffered bilateral pneumothoraces (collapsed lungs) after undergoing...
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More made-up news about patient harms. Following up on last month’s post on the fallacy of medical...
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Ever since the publication of the infamous 2016 BMJ opinion piece by Makary claiming medical error...
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The eating contest season is almost over. As far as I can determine, there was only one deaths...
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A 2014 review collected 136 case reports of accidental toothpick ingestion over an 85 year period....
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Last week the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine ruled that surgeons must chart every...
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Patient eel thyself A 50-year-old man presented to a Hong Kong emergency department with abdominal...
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You couldn’t do again it if you tried A 42-year-old man was stabbed in the right chest and was...
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Seven years ago, a medical student asked me why doctors still used pagers. I blogged about the...
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Google that phrase and you will come up with lots of hits. The following is a partial list of...
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“What About Recovery” is a provocative essay by Yale professor Lenore Buckley, MD, in the April 2,...
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In March 2017, the American Society of Anesthesiologists issued the following guidelines regarding...
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Nine years ago, blogger Jaan Sidorov wrote about new disease that a colleague dubbed “CoPaGA...
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In 2010, I blogged about CT scan being the gold standard for the diagnosis of appendicitis....
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In August 2014, a 13-year-old boy with type 1 diabetes died after being treated by self-described...
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