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Doctors’ happiness has not rebounded as pandemic drags on
Nearly half of physicians said they were somewhat or very unhappy at work, compared with 75% before the pandemic
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Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Patients
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Safety in Health Care: An Essential Pillar of Quality
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A patient named ‘Settle’ decides to sue instead
His suit seeks not only compensatory damages and other relief but also punitive damages.
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Post-birth hospitalizations dropped with Medicaid expansion
Hospitalizations in the 60 days after a woman gave birth fell by 17% in states that expanded Medicaid.
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Adverse events reported in one-quarter of inpatient admissions
The 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study documented an adverse event rate of 3.7 events per 100 admissions.
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What the FTC’s proposed ban on noncompete agreements could mean for physicians, other clinicians
Employers often include noncompete clauses in physician contracts because they want to avoid having patients leave their health care system.
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Singer is paralyzed after delay in care; hospital must pay
In a suit, the singer alleged that a doctor had probably ‘nicked a blood vessel’ during an epidural steroid injection procedure, causing...
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Pandemic may be limiting ED access for sexual assault
As the COVID-19 pandemic continued, ‘we became increasingly concerned about limited health care access for survivors of sexual assault,’ said the...
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A remote mountain bike crash forces a doctor to take knife in hand
An emergency medicine doctor stops mountain biking to help a man lying on a trail, not moving but occasionally breathing.