A jury recently found an emergency department (ED) physician and radiologist liable for failing to diagnose a brain-stem stroke in a patient who was subsequently left with “locked-in syndrome,” which is...
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A 29-year-old man presented to the emergency department with an episode of hematemesis associated with epigastric pain. This episode was preceded by excessive dry cough followed by emesis of food with mixed...
A 58-year-old woman with severe colon inertia developed an anastomotic leak after surgery to remove a dead spot on her colon. After several unsuccessful surgeries, the patient underwent a 17-hour...
A recent study assessed the risk of intracranial hemorrhage in patients taking direct oral anticoagulants who experience minor head injury. Would you recommend computed tomography head imaging for this...
A widow sued the United States government following her husband’s death from liver cancer after physicians from the Veteran Affairs Medical Center failed to diagnose his liver lesions. During the court...
A 31-year-old single mother visited her primary care physician due to pain in her ankle and calf. The next day she underwent an X-ray of the ankle and a Doppler ultrasound of her calf and was told to call...
A 41-year-old man went to his local hospital for an MRI with gadolinium to improve contrast. A radiology technologist was tending to the patient in the radiology room when she realized that he was having an...
Pulmonary MAI infection is associated with chronic lung diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic bronchitis, and bronchiectasis.
