Medical Malpractice: Are Teaching Hospitals Safe?
In one teaching hospital in the Southwest, the medical situation of a patient went from bad to worse.
A woman with no major health problems except arthritis in her knee became an amputee after 24 surgeries in less than two years.
The patient was injured in a surgery done by a resident trainee and that damage became life-threatening after she went days without seeing a faculty doctor.
Serious errors occur all the time; business as usual with many outcomes potentially preventable.
So many questions abound even with the records provided:
Bad and false recordkeeping as to whom did what or nothing at all - signatures missing.
Clinical outcomes lower than the national average.
Inexperienced students perform complex surgery without any supervision.
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