PNEUMONIA MALPRACTICE CLAIMS Go back to Delays in Diagnosing Serious Infections Pneumonia, particularly in high-risk patients, can result in breathing difficulties, sepsis, and even death.
CASES WE HANDLE Delays and Failures to Diagnose Vascular Conditions Vascular conditions such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and aortic dissection can be deadly if
Much medical care is provided by ancillary health care providers. Perhaps instead of “is there a doctor in the house?” the question should be “is
In a followup to our prior post about following up on concerning findings, we explore who is responsible for reporting incidental radiology findings. Who was
Getting your medical records should be easier than ever before. Information blocking continues to be a problem for records access, and a tangled web of
I read two interesting, and somewhat related, articles in medical journals this week. One of them was a review of primary care physicians’ incomes. The other was
What is your primary care provider’s title? Are they a medical doctor (MD), doctor of osteopathy (DO), nurse practitioner (ARNP), or perhaps a physician associate
Whatever happens with the pandemic, certain aspects of healthcare will forever remain changed. One shift is a subject that we have written about before –
The right specialist matters. Colonoscopies are performed by different types of providers, depending on the region’s resources. Primary care providers, surgeons, and other endoscopists are
Anchoring bias is a well known cognitive bias in medicine. The term refers to overemphasizing early-acquired information. One example which occurs in medicine that looks
