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.
Urgent Care Clinics have sprung up to fill a perceived gap in healthcare, available for folks who have needs that don’t rise to the level of an emergency room visit, or when it is inconvenient to see their primary doctor.
In a recent article in Journal of Patient Safety, it was reported that fewer than 2% of physicians were accountable for more than 50% of all settlement made in medical malpractice cases.
A new model of charting has popped up, one in which the doctors are wearing Google Glasses and the scribes aren’t next to them in the room, but remote.
In mass tort cases (i.e., case in which there are many claimants around the country) a firm can only handle such cases if it has a large number of clients and is willing to pay the very large costs associated with the litigation.