WhiteCoat back with more medical news from around the web. See more over at my blog at EP Monthly.
Emergency department overcrowding occurs everywhere. Malta video shows more than 20 patients lining one hospital’s ED hallways. More than 7,500 patients were treated in hall corridors last year.
Safe Massachusetts driver steals ambulance out of emergency department ambulance bay then crashes it into a snowbank just down the road. You ambulance folks going to lock your vehicles now?
Defense attorney blows defense verdict in medical malpractice case by asking “inappropriate” questions of plaintiff’s expert witnesses during trial.
If a physician misses child abuse, then there’s a multimillion dollar lawsuit. What happens when a physician notifies state agencies that abuse is occurring, the state agencies downplay it, and the child dies? The agency “faces questions.”
Being admitted to the hospital isn’t always “safe.” In one Vancouver hospital, there were 473 “serious” cases of C. difficile and 84 deaths from C. difficile in 2.5 years. That ZeePack ain’t going to help this kind of infection, either.
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Just wondering who has to pay for the defense team for that second 5 weeks trial… And yet there is no malpractice for lawyers…