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Study: Doctors' personal problems can lead to medical errors
Another dispatch from the "doctors are people too" department: A new study has concluded that financial problems, family issues and other personal problems can play a significant role in potentially... Read more...
Disruptive doctor behavior causes mistakes, intimidates workers
We've told you about the Joint Commission's new rule requiring hospitals to have rules and consequences to prevent disruptive behavior from physicians. And subsequently, the AMA asked for a one year... Read more...
FL puts health facility inspection records online
The state of Florida has put inspection reports and the results of complaint investigations for most health facilities online, allowing the public to simply review them at a moment's notice rather... Read more...
TX hospital group issues medical-error billing guidelines
Following the lead of individual hospitals and associations around the U.S., the Texas Hospital Association has developed a policy designed to help its member hospitals determine when not to bill for... Read more...
Boston hospital discloses wrong-side surgery
A surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center operated on the wrong side of a patient this week--and in a rare act of transparency, hospital officials disclosed the event promptly in an e-mail to... Read more...
