Emergency room doctors have increasingly found themselves in a bind. A patient presents with potentially serious symptoms and the doctor recommends admission to the hospital for
Emergency department staff at Kitsap County’s lone hospital recently called 911 for urgent help to put out a fire. The “fire”, though, was overwhelmed staff
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was the “opioid epidemic.” From 1999 to 2019, nearly 500,000 people died from an overdose involving any opioid, including prescription
We speak to folks every day who have had a bad experience with medical care. Sometimes the care leads to injury, and sometimes this injury
The Leapfrog Group’s 2022 Hospital safety grades reflect a decline in patient safety over the course of the pandemic. There are many factors that contribute
Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced a new policy to remove antiquated “race-based” medicine from its clinical guidelines. Prior to these recent efforts, AAP
In a bid to save thousands of dollars, a private equity group that runs an emergency physician practice group instead found itself at the wrong
A 2017 Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers are even
Everyone that calls our office was injured – to varying degrees – through some sort of medical care. They want to know whether their case
Picture a surgeon. Let’s see: light blue scrubs; scrub cap; blue surgical mask; steady hands; perhaps a tight ponytail tucked into the surgical cap? Or
