Medical Malpractice Insights: Endophthalmitis – Dorothy, this isn’t conjunctivitis any more!
Chuck Pilcher brings you a tough case of endophthalmitis for this month’s medical malpractice insights.
Medical Malpractice Insights: Positive Blood Culture (ignored), ESR 62 (misinterpreted)
If you order a test, there should be a way to follow it up. This month’s medical malpractice discusses a case stressing the need for following up tests.
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Medical Malpractice Insights: Bounceback Babies
This month’s Medical Malpractice Insights looks at a difficult case of multiple ED visits in a pediatric patient and the importance of documented medical decision making and return precautions.
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Medical Malpractice Insights: Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis
This month’s case from Chuck Pilcher looks at a challenging diagnosis in a patient with neurologic symptoms but no known risk factors for a potentially dangerous disease.
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Medical Malpractice Insights: Sentinel headache and missed cerebral aneurysm
Breakdowns in communication can cause all sorts of problems. This month’s Medical Malpractice Insights looks at a case of failure to communicate.
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Medical Malpractice Insights – Don’t be FOOL-ed by FOOSH
The FOOSH injury… be careful, and don’t be fooled.
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Whining radiologist and “fake news” neuro consult
Chuck Pilcher brings in 2019 with 2 cases for you in the Medical Malpractice Insights series. These cases discuss a consultant who wants to delay an exam and an incomplete consult.
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Medical Malpractice Insights – You cleared me for jail; I died there 2 days later
This month’s Medical Malpractice Insights discusses a tough case of medical clearance before sending a patient to jail.
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Medical Malpractice Insights – Misdiagnosis of Perforated Ulcer is not Malpractice
Today for our Medical Malpractice Insights post we look at the importance of good documentation.
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Medical Malpractice Insights – Knee dislocation: a vascular emergency
This edition of Medical Malpractice Insights looks at a case of potential vascular emergency: knee dislocation.
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