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The researchers, led by Daniel A. Waxman, examined 3.8 million Medicare patient records from hospital emergency departments from 1997 to 2011, comparing care in three states that enacted strict malpractice reform laws about a decade earlier (Georgia, Texas and South Carolina) to care in
In common law jurisdictions, medical malpractice liability is normally based on the tort of negligence. [3]Although the law of medical malpractice differs significantly between nations, as a broad general rule liability follows when a health care practitioner does not show a fair, reasonable and competent degree of skill when providing medical care to a patient. [3]
Studies have found that bipolar disorder has often been misdiagnosed as major depression. Its early diagnosis necessitates that clinicians pay attention to the features of the patient's depression and also look for present or prior hypomanic or manic symptomatology. [82] The misdiagnosis of schizophrenia is also a common problem. There may be ...
Researchers call misdiagnosis an urgent public health problem. Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after […] The post Women and minorities bear the ...
A woman in California sued after doctors persistently misdiagnosed a growing lump that, years later, was diagnosed as Stage 4 breast cancer. Even then, she said, doctors denied and delayed ...
As with many men and women incarcerated in the United States, Cox's life was left in the hands of overstretched and minimally qualified medical providers operating in institutions that rarely face ...
In international law, the principle is known as the Lotus principle, after a collision of the S.S. Lotus in international waters. The Lotus case of 1926–1927 established the freedom of sovereign states to act as they wished, unless they chose to bind themselves by a voluntary agreement or there was an explicit restriction in international law ...
"Cluster headaches usually last from 15 minutes to three hours and tend to occur in cycles lasting days or weeks," he said. Cluster headaches are commonly misdiagnosed as migraines.