Coronavirus sheds light on chronic nursing home problems
Nursing home staffing quality of care is always an issue
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Medical malpractice
Neck pain after trauma, or with other symptoms, can mean there's a serious medical problem
Sometimes it's more than just a "pain in the neck"
Past medical bills are important in a Texas medical malpractice case
Under a new law, collecting past medical bills must be done early in the case
Why time is important for a Texas medical malpractice case
There's a lot of work to do before filing a medical malpractice case, so now is the best time to hire an experienced lawyer
What happens when labor and delivery contractions are too close together
Nurses and doctors must into action when there's uterine tachysystole
Closed-loop communication prevents critical lab, radiology results from going unnoticed
Up to 62% of lab work and 35% of radiology studies lack any follow up
Bungled MRI, communication leads to man's permanent paralysis
Neurologist, pulmonologist, and hospital staff contribute to system failure
Neonatologists, NICUs and medical malpractice
Neonatologists are responsible for caring for hospitalized critically-ill babies during their 28 days of life
Doctor's failure to communicate caused emergency surgery for ectopic pregnancy
Communication errors create danger by allowing critical lab values, radiology results to fall through the cracks
Artificial intelligence may enhance radiology interpretation
Human and machine read scans will complement each other, improving patient safety