Archive for August 29th, 2008
How to Make Clinical Decisions and Avoid Defensive Medicine
By medliorator - Last updated: Friday, August 29, 2008
I was asked to examine a patient who was scheduled for an emergency amputation of her leg because of gangrene. I went over her chart and discovered that one of the junior residents had seen her the night before and had requested two consults… I cancelled the consults because they were unnecessary. The next day, [...]