The practice of overlapping surgeries is generally as safe as surgeries that do not overlap. However, there are some important caveats.
Pacific Surgical Center in Longview is part of a growing trend within “medical tourism” of staying within the United States, but travelling to another state for less costly surgeries.
Electronic Health Records can help attorneys for an injured patient figure out what went wrong.
Recent studies seem to indicate certain stroke patients will benefit from thrombectomy up to 24 hours after the onset of symptoms.
Improved communications between the technologist and the radiologist can improve patient safety.
Providing care to patients with limited English proficiency can be risky without the use of qualified translators.
CheXNeXt is a new computer algorithm which can be used to detect abnormalities in X-ray images.
Although doctors are more and more reliant on diagnostic tests, a thorough physical exam is still an important piece in determining the cause of a patient’s symptoms.