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Fact sheets on the procedure are produced and distributed through the surgeon's office, brochures about your outpatient surgery program are in the packet the patient receives when surgery is scheduled, a nurse talks to the patient in a pre-admission telephone call, and a comprehensive instruction sheet is given to the patient upon discharge.
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A high level of patient satisfaction and a wide range in the number of body parts upon which surgeons performed liposuction were two of the results that stood out in the recently released Liposuction 2004-2005 Report by the Institute for Quality Improvement (IQI), part of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
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If, by arresting a doctor and two nurses in the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti anticipated being hailed as a hero of the downtrodden and helpless, no doubt the backlash surprised him.
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Fear of being sued for malpractice is certainly one obstacle affecting physicians' willingness to disclose medical errors. But other, more personal and altruistic factors may play even bigger roles in whether a doctor decides to reveal his or her own medical errors, according to a University of Iowa bioethicist.
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A new study attempts to validate the argument that emergency medicine services (EMS) not staffed by paramedics could reduce the number of hopeless ambulance trips to the hospital if emergency medical technicians (EMTs) were allowed to end resuscitation efforts sooner in patients who are in cardiac arrest.
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When faced with a pediatric patient who has a heart condition that could lead to chronic health problems later in life, a physician rarely would hesitate to bring the condition to the attention of the child's parents and discuss ways to address it.
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States will be granted "report cards" on their policies on pain management in an attempt to show how well or inadequately U.S. medicine helps cancer patients deal with chronic pain.
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Medical journals nationwide are taking a harder look at their conflict-of-interest or financial disclosure policies, as publications acknowledge a spate of embarrassing examples of journals failing to cite ties between authors and the companies producing the treatments they write about.
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Is your drug database leading you astray?; Women's hearts less well-tended than men's?; AMA statement against MD participation in executions; 'Older, artier' students make better doctors
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Lift equipment sits unused in a closet. Safety needles are deposited in a sharps container without being activated. An employee fails to put on goggles when there's a risk of a body fluid splash.
