Should Procedures Be Practiced on the Newly Deceased?
Should medical personnel be allowed to practice procedures on patients who are newly deceased?
Should medical personnel be allowed to practice procedures on patients who are newly deceased?
Recently, a doctor writing in the Wall Street Journal highlighted a $10,000 charge for a trauma team activation that apparently never took place.
Google ER expansion and after you get past a few articles on endoplasmic reticulum, you will find many links about hospitals in all parts of the country building new, larger emergency departments.
Bad news for patients and doctors; effect on addicts questionable.
What happens when defendants blame each other for a complication?
A paper by a couple of public health researchers created some media buzz because it suggested that cardiac surgeons’ performance deteriorated when they took even one day off from surgery.
For a sample of over 56,000 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in Pennsylvania over a 5-year period, the average 1-day mortality was 0.62% and average in-hospital mortality was 2.72%. That means 349 patients died within 24 hours and 1532 died in-hospital.
Something seemed odd when I first read that 90% of medical articles on Wikipedia contained errors. The paper was from an obscure osteopathic school called Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina.
Like most abstracts you read, this one was a little fuzzy about the methods used. The top 10 most-costly medical conditions were identified, and a Wikipedia article for each was reviewed by 2 randomly assigned investigators.