Healthcare Update Satellite — 06-06-2013

More HealthCare Updates from around the web are at my other blog at http://drwhitecoat.com. Remember the case where hospital administrator Bruce Mogel allegedly planted a gun in a doctor’s car then called the police to frame him because the administrator didn’t like the doctor’s criticisms of the way the hospitals were being managed? The doctor sued the hospital and won $5.7 million. Well a judge just threw out that judgment. Employers can’t be liable if the employee/officer’s actions are not reasonably related to the job or reasonably foreseeable. Patients gone wild. Combative New Jersey patients gets beat down by police, then causes officer to dislocate his ankle. Now charged with aggravated assault on an officer. UK hospital emergency department director states that there is “toxic overcrowding” and that hospitals are at a “crisis point.” Notes that the EDs are “simply not equipped to safely care for such numbers of patients, an increasing proportion of whom are elderly and frail with complex medical, nursing and social needs.” More patients, sicker patients, “substandard conditions” … what could go wrong? Missouri Clinic sued for failing to drain an allegedly nonexistent perirectal abscess. The patient was instead placed on antibiotics, instructed to use sitz baths, told to see the surgeon the following day, and instructed to return to the emergency department if his condition worsened. Four days later when the next surgery appointment was ava...
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