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Kevin Pho M.D. has written that a screening test incidentaloma can make healthy people ill. This is a theme that appears too frequently in the medical literature. When I previously addressed this issue in a prior article it did not then occur to me that the argument might be used to impair patients receiving recommended screening. [...]
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Doctors knowingly fail to cooperate to make medicine safe because they would then be required to practice safe medicine, and be held accountable if they fail. In the recent issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology,[1] Drs. Strunk and Queenan in their advocacy for an administrative compensation plan to replace the tort system in providing compensation for [...]
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January 1, 2010 Journal Watch summarizes a remarkable article entitled “Investigation of incidental findings on cardiac CT.” The article was based on a study conducted at a Canadian institution where the investigators evaluated the incidence, clinical importance, and costs of these incidental findings. It’s first important to note that these researchers used the word incidental [...]
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In 1998 the United States Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the healthcare industry adopted a Patient Bill of Rights. The same year Pennsylvania enacted a Patient Bill of Rights allegedly for the purpose of providing quality healthcare accountability and protection under Act 68 of 1998. It is interesting that the legislature of [...]
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Ordering tests that are considered medically unnecessary is not defensive medicine but simply thoughtless medicine. I am a lawyer of 35 years experience in representing patients and their families who are victims of medical malpractice. My clients are harmed by thoughtlessness and failed communications and not because an unneeded medical test was not performed. The [...]
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