http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/03/case-where-38-year-old-women-died.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/03/case-where-38-year-old-women-died.html/comment-page-1#comment-52362 Anonymous Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/03/18002.html#comment-52362 On 3/15/05 i saw apatient with 3 days of fever and nothing else. Because of a community outbreak I checked and confirmed that he actually had influenza. A CXR was negative. 3 days later he was better, but, had a cough. I thought I was being ridiculous, but, since he has asthma and the weekend was looming I had him come in and found that he now had pneumonia on CXR. I wonder (no, I really DON'T wonder) what the lawyers would have said if I hadn't done the 2nd CXR? On 3/15/05 i saw apatient with 3 days of fever and nothing else. Because of a community outbreak I checked and confirmed that he actually had influenza. A CXR was negative. 3 days later he was better, but, had a cough. I thought I was being ridiculous, but, since he has asthma and the weekend was looming I had him come in and found that he now had pneumonia on CXR. I wonder (no, I really DON’T wonder) what the lawyers would have said if I hadn’t done the 2nd CXR?

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/03/case-where-38-year-old-women-died.html/comment-page-1#comment-52256 Maurice Bernstein, M.D. Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:26:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/03/18002.html#comment-52256 I would also wonder about the facts as clinical cases.blogspot.com apparently does also. This is the problem with newspaper stories. One would wonder what workup and treatment went on until she died on March 12th. I would strongly suspect that the patient had some chronic systemic or pulmonary illness before she developed the acute respiratory illness. The chronic illness perhaps complicated her treatments and contributed to her death. I would also wonder about the facts as clinical cases.blogspot.com apparently does also. This is the problem with newspaper stories. One would wonder what workup and treatment went on until she died on March 12th. I would strongly suspect that the patient had some chronic systemic or pulmonary illness before she developed the acute respiratory illness. The chronic illness perhaps complicated her treatments and contributed to her death.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/03/case-where-38-year-old-women-died.html/comment-page-1#comment-52253 Clinical Cases.blogspot.com Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/03/18002.html#comment-52253 What happened between January 21st, when she was diagnosed with pneumonia and March 12th, when she died? This is almost 2 months... What happened between January 21st, when she was diagnosed with pneumonia and March 12th, when she died? This is almost 2 months…

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/03/case-where-38-year-old-women-died.html/comment-page-1#comment-52254 SarahW Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/03/18002.html#comment-52254 The defendant would have saved <b>THE PATIENT"S LIFE</b> had she just, i) ordered a chest X-ray; or ii) prescribed empiric antibiotics regardless. The defendant would have saved THE PATIENT”S LIFE had she just, i) ordered a chest X-ray; or ii) prescribed empiric antibiotics regardless.

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