Man in 30s sent home from ER by nurse practitioner, dies of pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism blocks a blood vessel to one or both lungs
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Medical malpractice
Texas health care informed consent is more than a rubber stamp process
Informed consent is a physician responsibility
Woman in her 20s has stroke, brain injury after chiropractic neck manipulation
Study finds 1 in 20,000 neck manipulations by chiropractors causes vertebral artery aneurysm or dissection
How a single nurse in an emergency room can doom a patient's health
Robert Painter explains how triage nurses can put patients on the wrong track in ED Management, a publication for emergency medicine malpractice prevention
What happens when nurses won't speak up and advocate for patients?
Nursing advocacy is essential to patient safety
Study identifies gap in care after emergency room discharge
Learn what doctors, nurses, and patients can do to mind the gap
What to do when hospital discharge instructions don't make sense
Research shows questionable diagnoses impact women of color more often than others
Houston ER doctor discharges trauma patient with spinal cord injury
EMS recognized spinal cord risk, ER didn't work it up
How to avoid unnecessary spine surgery
Tens of thousands of spine surgeries that patients don't need are done every year