Wednesday, April 26, 20064
We Don't Even Know Where to Begin
1) More than a dozen more ear-stapling businesses have been told to shut down by the Mississippi Medical Licensure Board because they aren’t licensed. The small, stainless steel staples are supposed to apply pressure to points that control appetite and cravings for nicotine. Do people sue if they keep eating? Read [Clarion Ledger] 2) This happened in Canada, but we couldn’t let it go. A hospital had to cancel 17 elective surgeries after six doctors were suspended because they were not completing patients’ charts. Oh, yeah, the slackin’ docs had 28 days to take care of this huge liability risk. Read
3) A New Jersey woman with a history of beating her son laid a real swift kick to his neck in 2003. The boy died from internal bleeding and heart failure several hours after being admitted to a hospital. Now, three medical experts say it was Pascack Valley Hospital’s shoddy care--not mom's footwork--that caused the boy’s death. So mom was found guilty of assault instead of murder. Even if the facts are what they are, the whole thing just sickens us. Read [Bergen Record]
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anonymous
Yeah... those doctors deserved the suspension, too bad the patients had to suffer having their procedures cancelled though. I really don't understand why hospitals just don't instate monetary penalties for chart deficiencies. If you knew $1000 was coming out of your check for every chart 30 days incomplete, you wouldn't fuck around with your record keeping. There is no reason you can't get your ass to medical records and sign your H&Ps or dictate your D/c summaries.
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Anonymous
I'm not sure how that would go in Canada, but in the U.S. the majority of such physicians aren't salaried by the hospital but maintain private practice with hospital priviledges. So, a hospital couldn't have any control over their pay. A fine might work, but if the hospital is the only one around putting such a penalty into their contracts they will probably find that physicians will just choose to work out of other hospitals, and if no doctors are on the medical staff, they'll go out of business.
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WilliamManginoMD
I agree that the emergency room staff was negligent in the treatment provided to the boy who died.
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The Medicine Man
I understand the father of the boy beaten by his mother who subsequently died is suing the hospital for malpractice.
Post a Comment »1:37 PM
1:42 PM
There was an obligation, on their part, to maintain a high degree of suspicion as to potential life-threatening complications inherent in this type of injury.
Perhaps some of the blame could be assigned to the ambulance carriers for bringing this type of injury to that particular hospital in the first place. Wasn`t there a thoracic surgeon on call?
It is a very sad commentary on that system of triage.
Why does this particular scenario make you "sick." It makes me "sick" that the doctors on call for that ER didn`t exercise a higher degree of due diligence.
In general, I have agreed with you in the past. Common sense dictates that a particular hospital-faced with this type of trauma, owed a higher standard of care to that kid.
As for the mother-three years? Give me a break.
William Mangino M.D.
5:45 PM
The mother got three years for assault rather than being charged with murder because of the hospital's negligence. My question is: as next of kin, will she be able to benefit from this lawsuit as well?
Just curious. Any lawyers know a way out of this conundrum?
John
1:49 AM