Can Incident Reports Backfire?
Incident reports are frequently submitted by hospital personnel. Did you ever wonder what happens...
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Incident reports are frequently submitted by hospital personnel. Did you ever wonder what happens...
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Unnecessary testing wastes money and can lead to further testing. Why does it occur? Almost 60% of...
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A surgeon took a Spanish language proficiency test while performing varicose vein surgery on a...
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For several years, Medicare has tied hospital reimbursement to its definition of quality of care....
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The committee that plans and oversees medical care for the county of Hertfordshire, England...
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Dr. Mercola, described by Wikipedia as “an alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician,...
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A surgical resident is suing St. Louis University, its surgical residency program director,...
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Okay, what was your first reaction when you read the above headline? Mine was a tweet: “How’s this...
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Last week Dr. Ashish K. Jha, a Harvard internist and health policy researcher, published an...
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If you are a patient looking for help when trying to find the right doctor, you probably...
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In June I asked, “Who’s to blame?” for patients not taking their medications and cited a couple of...
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Three months ago I blogged about the doctor who was dragged off a United plane in Chicago...
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A woman in Montréal underwent a total hysterectomy for ovarian cancer back in March, and...
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Last year I blogged about a cosmetic surgeon in Florida named Osak Omulepu who had several bad...
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No one really wants to know if taking out an inflamed appendix using an endoscope passed...
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Will robots ever be able to perform surgery independently? And if they can, should they? In my...
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What is grit? In an article in The Guardian, Angela Duckworth, a psychologist often called the...
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The wrong body was cremated by the county coroner’s office in Los Angeles. Jorge Hernandez...
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Here’s what we know. In September 2016, a 72-year-old former member of the Australian...
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A jury awarded a woman $4,618,500 for a needlestick injury she sustained in the parking lot of...
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