by PPN | Jan 31, 2020 | National
SOURCE: American Medical Association Giving mental health patients access to outpatient care and reserving involuntary commitments for situations that warrant them is crucial to patient safety because studies show that involuntarily commitments result in patients...
by PPN | Jan 31, 2020 | National
SOURCE: The Gazette Most cardiologists have been implicated in a malpractice lawsuit, according to Medscape’s annual Cardiologist Malpractice Report, and in many cases the litigation causes them to stop trusting their patients. For this year’s Malpractice Report,...
by PPN | Jan 31, 2020 | Iowa
SOURCE: The Gazette Last summer, Marshalltown’s UnityPoint hospital shuttered its maternity ward. The year before that, Washington County Hospital in southeast Iowa did the same. These closures weren’t outliers. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, 28...
by PPN | Dec 31, 2019 | News, Newsletter
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by PPN | Dec 20, 2019 | Minnesota, National, Newsletter
Personal injury attorneys target definition of a patient With courts increasingly reviewing physician liability for patients they have never treated, the answer to what defines a patient could shape the future of access to care. The issue stems from a recent case in...
