ER Stories

WhiteCoat back with more news from around the web. See more at my blog over at EP Monthly if you’re dying for more.

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“No one ever got well in a waiting room.” The growing trend of hospitals posting emergency department wait times online and via text message is nice for business, but [...]

WhiteCoat here with another health care update. See more health care news from around the net over at my blog over at EP Monthly Magazine.

Bounty hunter trying to take patient into custody gets stymied by emergency department charge nurse. Too bad, Dawg. Bounty hunter then calls police who show up in the ED. Charge nurse gets [...]

WhiteCoat here again, filling in for ERP while he’s on vacation. See more medical news from around the web over at my blog at EP Monthly.

Massachusetts “insurance for all” imploding? Massachusetts law imposes penalties on small businesses of 11 or more workers that don’t offer insurance to their employees. With insurance companies petitioning to [...]

Whitecoat here again with medical news from around the web. See more over at my blog on EP Monthly.

Decrease in narcotic pain prescriptions equals decrease in patient volume. Hospital in North Carolina sees decrease in patient volumes after creating and publicizing policy that it will no longer use or prescribe narcotic prescriptions [...]

WhiteCoat here again. See more on the health news of the world on my blog at EP Monthly.

$23 million judgment against medical providers who used forceps to deliver child instead of performing caesarian section. The child was born with cerebral palsy.

Doctors don’t just suck in the United States. Medical malpractice complaints on the rise in Finland.

Medical [...]

WhiteCoat back after a little hiatus bringing you medical stories from around the web. More over at my blog on EP Monthly.

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An article initially caught my eye stating that a doctor was sued for malpractice after his male patient died of … uterine cancer. Whaaaa?
After doing a little more research, I found that a [...]