In a new medical study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the focus is less on a doctor's failure to make an accurate diagnosis of cancer than it is the disparity in treatment received based on the type of institution where a patient is receiving care after a diagnosis has already been made.
Strong, Unified Criticism of Medical Union, Residents' Hour Cuts
A long-accepted view in the medical community is that the road a doctor must traverse en route to becoming a competent, disciplined practitioner is uniformly constant and features certain absolutes, including, fundamentally, these: There are no short cuts to learning what a doctor needs to know; interns and residents need to be on the job and learn to adjust their workloads and schedules so they can follow -- that is, learn from -- an illness from inception to its end; and, with the balance of life and death often being in a doctor's hands, a physician consequently needs to become sufficiently steeled through training to optimally multi-task and work through the stressful situations that commonly occur in practice.
Study: Medical Error Rate about the Same in Hospitals, MD Offices
Researchers at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have just released a study with this central conclusion, which might surprise a lot of people: A patient's chance of suffering some type of adverse event resulting from an act of medical malpractice is about the same whether he or she received treatment in a doctor's office or in a hospital.
Preventable Medication Errors Send Millions to ERs, Clinics
Preventable errors in medication harm about 1.5 million patients each year in the United States, according to the Institute of Medicine ("IOM").
Growing Pains: Oregon's Attempts to Eliminate Medical Errors
Study: Surgery Infection Rate Tied to Operating Room Noise Levels
A central claim in many medical malpractice suits is that a patient's condition actually grew worse than better as a result of his or her hospital stay, owing to negligent medical care that resulted in a post-operative or other infection.
Doctors and Online Social Networking: Special Concerns
Online social networking is seemingly ubiquitous -- there appears to be a site for virtually every subject and purpose, and users number in the hundreds of millions, if not billions. Various estimates, for example, peg active Facebook users at 600 million-plus subscribers, with the number of users at other major sites -- e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, MySpace -- trailing only insubstantially behind.
Emerging National Strategy for Cutting Hospital Infection Rates
"Hospitals are dirty."
New Data Show Medical Malpractice Cases Steadily Declining in PA
Whether an impressively falling rate in the number of medical malpractice suits filed in Pennsylvania -- coupled with a strong trend showing that defendants prevail in more than 80 percent of such litigation -- is a decidedly positive development obviously depends on who is being asked, and is far from a simple matter.
