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Antibiotics fail to head off sepsis … Failure to address persistent symptoms proves disastrous… more
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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Failure to document treatment refusal proves costly . . . Enlarging uterus goes uninvestigated . . . more
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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Gallbladder surgery uncovers something more...Diagnosis minus treatment equals catastrophe...more
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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"Hemorrhoids" turn out to be cancer … and more
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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Bedside visit comes too late . . . Unrecognized spinal infection leads to paralysis . . .
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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Not your garden variety neck pain ... Untimely death blamed on undiagnosed PE ... More
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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Inadequate differential proves fatal ... Death by fentanyl patch and methadone ... more
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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Patient unaware of abnormal scans until it was too late ... For want of steroids, sight is lost ... more
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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"All in his head" Dx leaves boy limping for more than a year … When a migraine isn't a migraine ... more
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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Compartment syndrome Dx delayed... Failure to suspect endocarditis ends in heart surgery and memory deficit
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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Missed aortic aneurysm proves fatal ... Too-late cancer Dx blamed on neglected x-ray findings... More
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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Failure to monitor INR leads to severe bleeding, disability ... Rash and hives not taken seriously enough ... More
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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No tests ordered, despite baby's yellowing skin ... Amputation blamed on tardy Dx of compartment syndrome
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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CT scan wasn’t ordered, diagnosis was delayed...Stroke symptoms blamed on food poisoning...
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD
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Would a colonoscopy have made a difference? ... Suicide blamed on failure to diagnose bipolar disorder
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- Jeffrey L. Susman, MD