Mass. General Hospital on the Hot Seat
October was not a good month for Massachusetts General Hospital. A group of MGH anesthesiologists...
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Skeptical Scalpel
Baffling Deficiency of New ICD-10 Codes
Many years in the creation and tens of thousands more codes than ICD-9, yet the new ICD-10 list may be inadequate. An actor was hospitalized after his foot became caught an elevator raising the stage during a performance of the...
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Two Ways to Deal with ED "Frequent Flyers"
A hospital in Maryland has come up with a novel solution for patients who are “frequent...
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Surgeon Scorecard Thoroughly Dismantled
Back in July, an organization called ProPublica released its Surgeon Scorecard, which attempted to...
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Is there a Nursing Shortage or Not?
Google “nursing shortage,” and the number of hits describing the current shortage will convince...
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