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Doctors Suggest Cutting Medication to Reduce Hospital Deaths
Preventable errors have been a hot topic of discussion in the medical community recently. Insurance companies, legislators and medical professionals have suggested a variety of potential solutions to the alarming rate of medical errors in America – from treating more patients at home to establishing harsher penalties for doctors who commit dangerous errors. Now, in Continue Reading
Can 3D-Printed Organ Replicas Help Train Better Surgeons?
Before a student can become a surgeon, they typically spend months conducting mock surgeries on human cadavers. Unfortunately, surgical students aren’t guaranteed to see specific conditions or diseases during the course of their cadaver studies. Rather, it’s the luck of the draw. Medical cadavers are also in relatively short supply. In some cases, students have Continue Reading...
Study Finds Team Training Can Reduce Medical Errors
No physician is an island. More often than not, practicing medicine is a collaborative effort between groups of healthcare professionals working to solve a common problem. Now, a new study conducted by a group of psychologists at Rice University has found that by embracing team-focused training regimens, healthcare facilities can reduce medical errors by as Co...
Budget Shortfall Looming for Public Hospitals in NYC
Over the next four years, the New York City Health and Hospitals public system could face a deficit of $6.1 billion according to recent projections from the New York City Independent Budget Office. This shortfall is expected in spite of the fact that the system – which runs 11 hospitals in the area – is Continue Reading..
Can Steeper Penalties Reduce Medical Errors?
In May, 2016, the British Medical Journal raised serious concerns among patients and physicians when it published a study that found that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. The authors of the study attributed the alarming number of deaths caused by medical errors to a lack of reporting Continue Reading..
In Texas, a Stolen Heart Raises Questions About Tort Reform
11 years ago, Jerry Carswell died under mysterious circumstances while being treated for kidney stones at Christus St. Catherine Hospital in Katy, Texas. During the autopsy, a medical examiner removed Carswell’s heart and preserved it as evidence that the man had died of a heart attack. Three years after Carswell’s death, his wife Linda sued Continue Reading.....
