How patients can overcome healthcare bias

Like everyone else, physicians, nurses, and other providers can be misguided by implicit biases

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Man in 30s sent home from ER by nurse practitioner, dies of pulmonary embolism

Pulmonary embolism blocks a blood vessel to one or both lungs

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Surgeon, nurses miss signs of cauda equina syndrome

Young man is left with permanent impairments

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Texas health care informed consent is more than a rubber stamp process

Informed consent is a physician responsibility

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Woman in her 20s has stroke, brain injury after chiropractic neck manipulation

Study finds 1 in 20,000 neck manipulations by chiropractors causes vertebral artery aneurysm or dissection

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Woman in her 20s has stroke, brain injury after chiropractic neck manipulation

Study finds 1 in 20,000 neck manipulations by chiropractors causes vertebral artery aneurysm or dissection

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How a single nurse in an emergency room can doom a patient's health

Robert Painter explains how triage nurses can put patients on the wrong track in ED Management, a publication for emergency medicine malpractice prevention

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What happens when nurses won't speak up and advocate for patients?

Nursing advocacy is essential to patient safety

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Study identifies gap in care after emergency room discharge

Learn what doctors, nurses, and patients can do to mind the gap

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What to do when hospital discharge instructions don't make sense

Research shows questionable diagnoses impact women of color more often than others

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