A New York court makes the distinction between medical malpractice and ordinary negligence in a case involving a doctor who wrote an illegible prescription.
An older woman tripped on a rug in her house and toppled down her stairs. The patient was diagnosed with a kidney laceration, broken ribs, and fractured vertebrae. She was admitted to the hospital and her...
A patient scheduled for a positron emission tomography (PET) scan who wanted medication to relieve her anxiety was prescribed Versed, but the nurse mistakenly injected the patient with a fatal dose of...
Joshua is an 80-year-old man who had been stable on coumadin for 12 months, consistently demonstrating an INR of 2.2 to 3.1. Today, Joshua presented with an INR of 21.4, which results in immediate admission...
We previously met Louis, a healthy 68-year-old male who currently takes no medications but has been reluctant to start statin use due to concerns that it may cause dementia. Today, you receive a call from...
Marilyn is a 48-year-old woman with a history of fibromyalgia, depression, obesity, irritable bowel syndrome, and temporomandibular joint disorder. She has been wearing a soft cervical collar for the past 4...
Erika is a 28-year-old with a recurrent migraine. Although triptans effectively abort her headaches, she would like to use a preventive tool. Propranolol 160 mg/d was only minimally ineffective for her....
