Federal law bans hospital emergency rooms from dumping patients in active labor or with emergency medical conditions
After COVID, some hospitals seem to ignore EMTALA requirements
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Medical malpractice
Not listening to the patient, other shortcuts lead to stroke misdiagnosis
In the United States, strokes in 18 to 45 year olds are on the rise
Neurosurgeons face class action lawsuit alleging unnecessary spine surgeries
Liability for unneeded surgeries can be broad
Houston Court of Appeals rules against hospitalist physician in Houston Methodist Hospital fall case
Hospitalists must give appropriate fall prevention orders and instructions to nurses
Bariatric surgery, thiamine deficiency, and medical malpractice
Inadequate Vitamin B1 can cause Wernicke's encephalopathy and Korsakoff Syndrome
Chiropractic neck manipulation and medical malpractice
Vertebral artery dissection, stroke, and death are risks of chiropractic cervical spine manipulation
Posterior circulation stroke misdiagnosis and medical malpractice
Around 165,000 stroke diagnoses are missed each year in American emergency rooms
Jury holds orthopedic surgery group accountable in compartment syndrome case
Young adult patient had surgery for broken leg, was discharged despite signs of compartment syndrome
Texas trauma surgeons lose at trial with the "blame the patient" defense
Jury sided with plaintiff who alleged trauma surgeons didn't order antibiotics despite contaminated deep laceration from hand to shoulder
Lubbock heart hospital loses appeal in medical malpractice expert report challenge
Hospital failed to file an objection to plaintiff's amended expert report