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8:46

Unfair But So What? Trial for MD After Patient Skips...

MedMal Insider ·

2015/03/03

During an initial physical for a new 38-year-old female patient, the PCP noted a normal breast exam, and recommendations for a screening mammogram and colonoscopy due to family history of colon cancer. A mammogram was never done, although the patient returned to this physician practice a dozen times over the next several years for episodic care. Then she presented with a a self-identified lump, followed by a cancer diagnosis. Dr. Carla Ford discusses the patient safety and risk management

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6:17

Asplenic Patient Disabled after Providers Overlooked...

MedMal Insider ·

2014/03/25

Despite multiple visits to her PCP, a 30-year-old woman without a spleen was never given prophylactic antibiotics or told the risks of a high fever. A mishandled telephone triage delayed her trip to the ER, and the resulting pneumococcal sepsis led to permanent disabilities and a $1 million-plus settlement.

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10:07

Missed Steps Delay Breast Diagnosis

MedMal Insider ·

2013/10/31

Even though the patient identified a lump on her breast, it took more than a year to diagnose cancer. Family history-taking and proper imaging were lacking. CRICO interviews one of the authors of a Harvard breast care management algorithm, Michelle Specht, MD, to consider how following such a guideline could have helped the gynecologist and radiologist—and ultimately the patient.

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9:05

A Missed MI Diagnosis and Death After Office Visit

MedMal Insider ·

2013/07/25

As in many missed MI cases, the primary care physician did not order an EKG. Thomas Sequist, MD, of Atrius Health, describes where some of these cases typically go wrong, and how using a Framingham Risk Score can help with the evaluation process in the office practice.

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8:21

Misread of Data Slowed Response, Hurt Patient

MedMal Insider ·

2013/04/17

Fetal heart rate tracings indicated earlier intervention after prolonged induction of labor. The obstetrician and nurse midwife were faulted for not working more closely together.

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10:04

Patient Loses Finger after Medication Error in ER

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2013/02/25

Medication error in the ER was preventable. Culture and communication problems compounded an error that required several surgeries and amputation.

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9:04

Missed MI and a Failure to Connect the Dots

MedMal Insider ·

2013/01/15

Dr. Gordon Schiff discusses how to prevent a patient's heart attack, this practice would have needed better systems to monitor and identify chronic risk factors.

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9:10

Late Follow Up Miffed Patient in 1821 Ortho Case

MedMal Insider ·

2012/09/17

Nation's “first malpractice crisis” resulted in 1821, after a horse fell on a man and the surgeon waited a month to visit his patient to see if his attempted hip reduction worked.

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9:59

Midwife Didn’t Seek OB Consult on Fetal Heart Rate

MedMal Insider ·

2012/07/31

Lack of collaboration and poor documentation among the factors in large settlement with severely compromised infant.

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8:25

Bleed Recovery Good, But Disclosure Faulted

MedMal Insider ·

2012/06/01

The surgeon orchestrated a great recovery from a massive bleed that resulted in blindness, but the patient sued for answers.

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7:40

Test Delay Blamed in Woman’s Death

MedMal Insider ·

2012/04/09

The patient was under 50 and lack of communication between the PCP and GI about a sigmoidoscopy order contributed to a diagnostic failure.

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8:30

Retained Object: Reliance on Memory Harms Patient

MedMal Insider ·

2011/06/16

The surgeon postponed removing a catheter fragment, and then forgot about it.

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10:24

Lack of Empathy Triggers Suit Against Surgeon

MedMal Insider ·

2011/02/03

The patient and his wife felt that the surgeon was not forthcoming with an explanation of what happened and seemed indifferent to the impact on his patient, following conversion to an open procedure and large blood loss.

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8:09

Wrong Site, Quickly Settled

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2006/07/01

Clear liability case from a reversed X-ray was resolved efficiently with insurer/institution cooperation.

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