Medical Malpractice

Improving patient safety requires a collaborative effort from all stakeholders, including patients, healthcare providers, medical technology companies, government, employers, and private payers. That’s what the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) says, and they want to work with all stakeholders to address the problems and solutions of patient safety. What is PSMF’s Focus? The PSMF...

“Residents cannot do surgery without the supervision of an attending physician.” That’s what a spokeswoman for Parkland Hospital in Dallas said when asked about the performing of “ghost surgery.” That’s when the surgeon operating on a patient—the individual who’s doing the actual holding of the scalpel and cutting—isn’t the person you thought was going...

It’s no secret that when compared to men, women do suffer disadvantages when seeking medical treatment. Research proves this point, a fact that may cause serious injury and death. Laura Huang, PhD, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who studies organizational behavior, conducted a study in 2018 that tracked nearly 582,000 heart attack...

We read a lot about mistakes made by doctors, surgeons, nurses, and hospitals that cause injury and sometimes death to patients. However, in some cases, it’s the healthcare system itself that creates an environment for medical mistakes. Dr. Danielle Ofri, an internist at New York City's Bellevue Hospital, writes in her new book, When...

Discrimination is defined as making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories of which they’re thought to be part. Individuals may suffer discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, and other categories. Discrimination can stem from social interactions that happen to protect more powerful or privileged...