The "Standard of Care" is something a jury decides, including not only evidence of how doctors in Washington state actually practice, but also what experts for both sides say is the standard.
Images from recent clinical trials of a new 3D body scanner are out, showing an incredible amount of detail that will hopefully help doctors in the future.
Water births are uncommon in hospital settings, and it is unclear what different benefits and risks such procedures have relative to more traditional birthing procedures.
Technology in medicine is developing rapidly. What was the stuff of science fiction just a few years ago is already becoming a reality.
A new stroke treatment recently studied in the Netherlands is giving the medical community hope that it will soon have another treatment for patients who suffer from ischemic strokes. The treatment involves threading a stent with a snare at the end up through an artery in the groin to grab and pull out the clot in the brain.
Blood-thinners are important medications to prevent the formations of clots that can harm and kill patients, but the use of these drugs must be weighed against the risks of dangerous bleeding that can occur while on the medications.
Technology has the potential to improve health care, but it also carries with it a number of risks to patient safety.
Apology laws are laws that allow a doctor to apologize for a medical error without his apology being used against him in Court. Although I understand wanting to incentivize doctors and other health care providers to apologize when they’ve caused harm, it’s often a hollow gesture when it’s not followed up by some action to make things right.