August 31, 2021
A missed diagnosis does not mean you committed medical malpractice: documentation can save you.
April 12, 2018
The Case A 30 year old woman gave birth to a baby after nearly 20 hours in labor. Three days later she started having fever, chills, and abdominal pain. At this point, there really isn’t any need to provide additional information as the ‘diagnosis until
July 7, 2017
We work in a high-risk field. The very nature of emergency medicine and the types of patients it attracts is litigious. A 2011 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that EM had a higher than average risk of malpractice. It states:
