![]() ![]() Some of the lessons that these cases teach are the recurrent themes that all of us involved in emergency medicine risk management constantly stress: early scheduled follow-up evaluations can prevent disasters (e.g., patients with right lower quadrant pain) simple, clear discharge instructions which cannot be misinterpreted are essential common problems occur commonly (e.g., pulmonary embolism ) if the patient has right lower quadrant pain, always consider appendicitis and discuss the possibility with the patient (or parent in the case of a minor patient) if the patient has chest pain and is in the appropriate age group, consider acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remember that many ED malpractice disasters are vascular (e.g., PE, aortic dissection or aneurysm, subarachnoid hemorrhage) laboratory and x-ray follow-up must not be ignored when a patient returns to the emergency department for an unscheduled recheck, that patient may be giving you an opportunity to remedy an earlier misdiagnosis patients with possible AMI need "IV, O 2, monitor" right now, etc.Ĭase No. The point being: Don’t get too comfortable just because the physician prevailed in some of these cases they easily might have turned out differently. With that caveat in mind, in some of the cases where the jury returned a defense verdict, one can easily imagine another jury, with similar facts, finding for the plaintiff. In most of the cases, we have been provided with only limited facts. Some of these cases resulted in settlements prior to trial others went to trial where juries rendered verdicts. ![]() I n this month’s ED Legal Letter, our author has provided a variety of medical malpractice cases with relevance to us as emergency physicians. Gilliland, II, JD, Gilliland and Associates, Covington, KY. Don’t get comfortable Cover basics or kiss your assets goodbyeīy Rudy Bisciotti, JD, Gilliland and Associates, Covington, KY. ![]()
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