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Seeking accountability, improving safety.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Patient safety should be of paramount concern to a hospital. If economic considerations or protecting physician or hospital relationships are a higher priority than patient safety, the public should know it. By exposing such derelictions of duty, we can help our clients and bring about change to protect future patients.

One credentialing claim stands out in my memory as an example of how the civil justice system can hold a hospital accountable for ignoring clear warning signs about a doctor who represented a threat to patient safety. A local orthopedic surgeon, who had been respected in the community, was near the end of his long career when he suddenly started performing a large number of spinal surgeries with pedicle screw instrumentation. The expense to patients for these surgeries was many times that of a conventional spinal surgery,...

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