Many people are turning to ride sharing apps like Uber and Lyft to take them to the ER instead of an ambulance.
Recent efforts by Republicans on a national level to pass healthcare "reform" have included draconian provisions that would have made medical malpractice cases much for difficult to bring.
There are many clinical decision rules to stratify patients in terms of risk, but some of the most important are the Canadian Head CT Rule and the New Orleans Criteria.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has recently reversed itself, and again allows most rookie doctors to work up to 24 hours continuously.
There has been no consensus among cardiologists about whether cardiac disease screening should be done and how effective it is in determining risk of heart disease.
In Washington, a surgeon probably doesn’t have to tell you if she’s never performed the surgery she is planning to perform on you.
The over-riding criticism of EMR, however, is the tendency to “cut and paste” information.
Recent Gallup Poll again shows Nurses and Doctors rate highly in categories of honesty and ethical standards. Lawyers – not so much.
