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Aug 13, 2019 · Nothing Shocks Me Anymore: Stories from the ER. It’s been 7 years since I graduated nursing school and started on this journey of being an Emergency/Trauma RN and, let me tell you, it hasn’t come with a shortage of insane stories. Over 5 of those years working as an RN have been in the ER which has been almost exclusively in level 1 trauma ...
May 7, 2019 · Lenh Vuong, a clinical social worker at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, checks on a former John Doe patient she recently helped identify. Heidi de Marco/KHN. The 50-something man with a ...
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Oct 14, 2020 · It is now estimated that more than 700 patients are dying each day due to medical mistakes in U.S. hospitals. This figure clearly indicates that medical errors often occur even though a fraction ...
Jan 28, 2016 · Most of the time, this works. If you arrive at a hospital and your information matches the records in their databases, the algorithm clears you. But in the sprawling mishmash of written and ...
May 28, 2019 · Here are more amusing, eye-opening, and cringe-worthy anecdotes of patients who’ve tortured, twisted, and misunderstood medical terminology. Be still my beating heart. One patient mistook “You have a heart murmur” for “You are a hot mama,” explained a cardiologist. “The patient was upset with the doctor because of the ...
Oct 1, 2016 · A new report by the ECRI Institute says that such patient mix-ups are actually quite common. Dr. Hardeep Singh is a patient safety researcher at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and the ...
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May 21, 2022 · They have even taken to TikTok to make her name and story go viral. “It really is the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak,” Erica Daniels, a nurse based in Las Vegas, said.