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Clinics dish out powerful pain medications without real physician supervision or even a physical exam (posted 4 days, 17 hours ago)
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Looking for board certification in the pain management specialization is not enough for a patient to ensure the doctor is qualified. Learn the questions you should ask your doctor. (posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago)
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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 (posted 2 months, 1 week ago)
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Nursing errors can be prevented if hospitals take notice and train their personnel (posted 2 months, 1 week ago)
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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 (posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago)
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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 (posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago)
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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 (posted 6 months ago)
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What is brain death? How can you definitively tell if someone is brain dead? (posted 6 months, 1 week ago)
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There are some practical things moms and dads can do to increase their chances for a successful, healthy delivery. (posted 6 months, 1 week ago)
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Focuses on the Texas Advance Directives Act of 1999 (posted 7 months ago)
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An issue involving medical futility may come up at any time, whether the patient is young or old, insured or uninsured. (posted 7 months, 1 week ago)
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Although there has been talk of "death panels" during the health care reform debate, we have had them for over a decade in Texas (posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago)
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