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Avoid malpractice while treating minor head trauma in children

Maxwell S. Kennerly
Conditions and Diseases
February 10, 2012

In October 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a 60% increase in “emergency department visits for sports– and recreation–related traumatic brain injuries, including concussions, among children and adolescents” over the past decade. That’s good news: as the CDC’s press release said, they believe the increase was due in part to “growing awareness among parents and coaches, and the public as a whole, about the need for individuals with a suspected …

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Avoid malpractice while treating minor head trauma in children

Why you would want a younger doctor in the hospital

Maxwell S. Kennerly
Physician
August 10, 2011

Recently, the American Journal of Medicine published a study with the unexpected conclusion that hospitalized patients were more likely to die or stay long in the care of an experienced physician than in the care of a recent graduate from residency: “When doctors weren’t very busy, they kept patients in the hospital for roughly the same average time no matter how many years of experience they had. But when they did have a …

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