'Stat' means 'now': How hospitals bungle urgent CT and MRI orders
Hospitals can save lives by training their nurses to follow stat physician orders for CT and MRI scans immediately and to contact a doctor when the images are available for review
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Poor nursing communication causes needless hospital injuries and deaths
Nurse-doctor communication is such a problem that the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires all hospitals to create policies and procedures to improve nursing communication of critical lab values
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Painter Law Firm wins medical malpractice settlement of $3,925,000.00
Now this teenager's family has the funds they need to care for their child, who was brain injured because of a Houston-area hospital's negligence
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Rising health care costs aren't because of medical malpractice claims
Insurance company payouts in medical malpractice lawsuits are at a historic low, yet health care costs continue to rise. This shows that further tort reform is unneeded and would be ineffective
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Developments in Texas Advance Directives
An issue involving medical futility may come up at any time, whether the patient is young or old, insured or uninsured.
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Death panels already exist
Although there has been talk of "death panels" during the health care reform debate, we have had them for over a decade in Texas
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