Study links surgeons, physicians, providers not listening to patients to diagnostic errors

Cognitive bias and communications errors are dangerous

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Laparoscopic surgery: Minimally invasive, but what about the risk?

Most injuries occur during placement of surgical equipment

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Federal law prohibits hospital emergency rooms from turning away patients

After a medical screening, patients in an emergency medical condition or active labor must be medically stabilized before being discharged or transferred

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Outpatient surgery centers are different from hospital operating rooms

Hospitals are equipped and staffed to handle complications and emergencies

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Texas Supreme Court: Facilities don't have to produce policies and procedures before medical malpractice plaintiffs serve an expert report

There's a discovery stay provision in the health care liability tort reform statute

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What procedures have the highest death rates in ambulatory surgery centers?

There are 570 licensed ambulatory surgical centers in Texas

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Houston appellate court: Ophthalmologist qualified to diagnose ganglioglioma tumor

Expert report was critical of ophthalmologist failure to perform dilated eye exam

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New guidelines for anesthesiologists address emergency planning for difficult airway patients

Trained staff and readily available equipment and supplies are important to patient safety

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What Bob Saget's death teaches us about traumatic head and brain injuries

Head injuries shouldn't be overlooked by victims or medical profesisonals

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Is there a difference between an MD and a DO doctor?

MDs and DOs are physicians held to the same general standard of care

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