Wrong site surgery lawsuits

    • Wrong Site Surgery Lawsuits • AccidentAttorneys.org

      “The hospital’s defense bar and claims management lawyers resisted for years,” McDonald says, “advising the hospital and its physicians to ‘deny, deny, deny,’ even in such cases as wrong-site surgery.” As McDonald describes it, their own defense lawyers were the biggest barriers of all.

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    • [DOC File]Common Medicolegal

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      20 January 2016. To Blame or Not to Blame? The Medical Profession and Blame Culture. Professor Martin Elliott. Introduction. In 2014/15, the NHS dealt with 1 million patients every 36 hours. 16 million people were admitted to hospital, and almost 10 million patients had operations. 22 million people attended Accident and Emergency departments.

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    • [DOC File]IHI White Paper—revised first draft

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      “Our Quality Improvement meeting today will focus on procedures to prevent wrong site surgery.” Develop a corrective action plan (CAP). Share the CAP with staff and other healthcare providers. “Thank you for your help identifying vulnerabilities in our appointment …

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    • [DOC File]comp1_unit6_discuss_key.doc

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      A diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma in situ was diagnosed yet the status of the margins was left ambiguous on the pathology report. Subsequently, the urologist did not perform a wide excision and the patient developed invasive carcinoma at the site of the prior surgery. Both the urologist and the pathologist were sued.

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    • [DOC File]The physician’s role in post-discharge emergency care

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      The vast majority involved claims of wrong power IOLs, followed by surgery on the wrong eye, block on the wrong eye, wrong procedure, and wrong patient. Thirty six percent of these cases resulted in indemnity payments, which totaled $573,515. Surprisingly, in many instances, the patient never filed a …

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    • [DOCX File]R - OMIC

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      Universal Protocol—a standard procedure for surgery teams to follow to avoid using the wrong procedure, operating on the wrong site, or even operating on the wrong person. ... and this is also considered during malpractice lawsuits.

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