Wrong-site surgeries include surgery on the wrong side or site of the body, on the wrong patient and/or performing the wrong surgery. It’s the No. 1 safety concern for 65 percent of operating room nurses, a Medline national survey found. Wrong-site surgeries happen up to 40 times a week in the U.S., according to the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare.
Every day, the medical community is learning something new about the novel coronavirus. Although COVID-19 is typically considered a lung infection, scientists have found that
Emergency Room visits are down during the Covid pandemic. Unfortunately, people have unnecessarily died out of fear of going to the hospital. Recognize the symptoms of a medical emergency and seek immediate medical help.
To our colleagues, employees, and clients, As you know, documented cases of COVID-19 are now in our area. Fortunately, local, state, and national responses aimed
Anna Mary Bakley, a 69-year-old mother of three, survived gallbladder and breast cancer, but didn’t survive a bleeding ulcer that could have been easily treated.
The Lake City Reporter ran a front-page article about a lawsuit involving the preventable death of Robert Taylor, a Vietnam veteran, who died from lung cancer almost
March is National Patient Safety Awareness Month. A study published recently in the Journal of Patient Safety estimates that more than 400,000 Americans die every year from
Last Friday, a Michigan oncologist who, for several years, poisoned and unnecessarily prescribed chemotherapy to over 550 of his patients, some of whom resultantly died,
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