Archive: April 2014

The medical community is not immune to the country’s prescription drug epidemic. An investigation by USA Today found that more than 100,000 doctors, nurses, medical technicians, and health care aides are addicted or abusing prescription drugs. Their behavior puts not…

About 12 million people who visit a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic in the U.S. each year receive the wrong diagnosis, according to a recently published study in the British Medical Journal Quality and Safety. Much of the focus on…

Research suggests that patients are less likely to suffer complications after surgery when their operations are performed by surgeons whose skills are highly rated by other doctors. Medical researchers at the University of Michigan Health System looked at the relationship…

It is well-established that patients from lower social economic backgrounds tend to have worse outcomes after surgery than wealthier patients. But the explanation for the poorer outcomes has not been well understood. According to new research published in JAMA Surgery,…