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MedPage Today
In 2018, this previously high revenue-generating surgeon had a series of patient injuries and deaths resulting from his surgeries. He was removed from the surgery schedule following a whistleblower lawsuit.
All Specialties September 20th 2022
Medical Professionals Reference (MPR)
“There have been a handful of cases which have now held, for one reason or another, that a third party can pursue a claim against a health care practitioner if they were injured as a result of that health care practitioner’s negligence to his or her own patient. What does this mean practically speaking? It opens the door for more lawsuits, lawsuits from people who were never your patient, but who may be impacted by a prescribing decision you make for your patient.”
All Specialties April 19th 2022
An analysis by an Australian physician is making waves by suggesting that an infamous study of vitamin C treatments for sepsis may be fraudulent. The study author alleges that the pre- and post-comparison groups involved in the 94-patient study were too similar to be realistic and that the data were fabricated.
All Specialties April 5th 2022
Nurses and the American Nurses Association (ANA) worry the conviction of RaDonda Vaught could set precedent as the profession struggles with burnout and exhaustion due to COVID-19. In 2019, Vaught, 38, was charged with reckless homicide and impaired adult abuse after she allegedly gave a patient a paralytic instead of a sedative ahead of a PET scan.
All Specialties March 30th 2022