Physician refuses to wait on hold
A radiologist’s impatience creates a fatal failure to communicate. Is the referring NP also to blame?
A radiologist’s impatience creates a fatal failure to communicate. Is the referring NP also to blame?
Attributing the symptoms to a virus, a PA decides not to prescribe antibiotics—with disastrous results.
Mr. R, age 54, was a diabetic, moderately overweight construction worker. One day he tripped at a job site, falling heavily on his right hip. Despite the pain, he finished his shift, then he went home, took an ibuprofen tablet, and went to bed. When he awoke in agony at…
Mr. B, a 34-year-old physician assistant, was having another frenetic day in the gastroenterology clinic, and he was not happy. When he had taken the job a year ago, he had hoped it would…
With two positive ELISAs, an NP sees no need to ask for help in evaluating analyses to diagnose HIV.
Would a severed nerve have been recognized had the patient been less confrontational in the ED?
Breaching the privacy of a patient’s records could land her in jail and jeopardize the entire clinic.
When a 16-year-old dies after an auto accident, his distraught parents look for someone to blame.
After missing early signs of colon cancer, did heneglect to recommend a colonoscopy as well? Dr. D, 62, was a general practitioner in a quiet Midwestern suburb. He enjoyed his reputation as a kindly, old-fashioned family doctor just as his father and grandfather had before him. But after 25 years, he was ready to wind…
An injured hiker charges that deciding when to start antibiotics should never have been his call to make. Should a patient be expected to determine whether a wound is infected? Mr. C, a 38-year-old physician assistant, learned the answer the hard way when that question led to his involvement in a malpractice lawsuit. Mr. C…