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EMERGENCY ROOM MEDICAL MALPRACTICE │ What goes wrong and why
About four of every 100,000 Emergency Department (ED) visits result in an allegation of medical malpractice. The analysis below of 1,300 medical malpractice cases involving emergency care, provides insight into what is driving these claims. Because their care is episodic … Continue reading
ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM MISDIAGNOSIS│MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is an outpouching at the area of the weakness in the abdominal aorta involving all three layers of the artery wall. An aneurysm is defined as an increase of greater than 50% from the vessel’s original … Continue reading