Any other hospitalists become jaded and terrified of lawsuits that you just panscan everyone?

Family awarded $29 million in lawsuit against Salem Hospital SALEM — Salem Hospital has been ordered to pay a local family $29 million, most of it over the next 28 years, after the father died from an undiagnosed and www.salemnews.com Looks like standard of care to me but somehow ER doc and hospitalist were both nailed by the jury for $29M for missing an aortic dissection in someone without classic symptoms. Diagnosis was “delayed for 15-20 hours” is worth 29M. I’ve given up on best practices long ago and have low threshold to shoot everyone full of radiation on my admissions... Read more
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