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Emergency medicine practitioners have little control over the flow of patients into their facilities. Federal law requires them to examine and treat virtually everyone who comes through the door.
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Physicians should not purchase medical malpractice insurance from the surplus lines insurance markets unless there is no coverage available to them from the admitted markets.
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The news stories shocked many Americans: ED staff ignored a dying woman's pleas for help as she bled to death of a perforated bowel on the floor of their waiting room.
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To solve the problems that contributed to ED staff actions being considered as potentially criminal in recent cases of patient deaths in Los Angeles and Illinois, the answer doesn't lie in reducing risks of adverse events in patients kept waiting for hours.
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When a group of physicians starting emergency medicine residencies in California were surveyed, researchers found that malpractice fear markedly decreased the interns' enjoyment of medicine.
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This issue is the second part of a discussion of hand and wrist injuries. The complexity of the anatomy and the variation of injuries provides an explanation of why so many injuries are initially missed.
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Abdominal trauma is the most frequently initially missed fatal injury in pediatrics. A high degree of suspicion is critical and early diagnosis is essential to minimize the morbidity and mortality associated with these injuries.
