This month we look at a case involving the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, commonly referred to as EMTALA. EMTALA was enacted by Congress in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985. The act was designed to prevent hospitals from ‘patient dumping’; transferring uninsured or Medicaid patients to…
This month’s case addresses the issues of when to act on abnormal test results.
Mr R filled out all the appropriate paperwork to signify his Do Not Resuscitate/Do Not Intubate requests and told the hospital staff that he wished to have the DNR/DNI entered on his electronic chart.
Diagnosing a disease can be challenging, especially when symptoms are common or non-specific.
A recent appeals court decision reminds us yet again that cases that seem strong can still fail on a technicality.
There are many reasons why parties to a lawsuit decide to settle.
The nurse mistakenly administered 120 milligrams of morphine to the wrong patient.
Prior to the procedure, Mr K filled out 2 surgical consent forms, both describing the intended procedure as “local excision of a scrotal mass, possible cystoscopy.”
This month we look at a case where a jury was asked to hold a patient partially responsible for his own injury based on the fact that he had some medical background.
This month we look at a case where the jury ultimately decided for the defendant physician who was sued by a former patient after she developed cardiomyopathy from a medication prescribed by the physician.
