Question

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Case Study: Malpractice

Mrs. Abelson was a patient of Dr. Y, a physician working for a group medical group. He was concerned about Mrs. Abelson's neurological status and scheduled her to be admitted to the hospital for testing.

Mrs. Abelson was a 67 year female was admitted to the 4th floor of an acute hospital to have a cerebral scan performed.

After Mrs. Abelson completed the testing, she was returned to a room on the 5th floor. The next morning, Mrs. Abelson was taken to the operating room, and had an open heart procedure performed. The surgery took for over an hour.

Mrs. Abelson's internal medicine physician called and asked what was happening to his patient.

The mistake was realized, for they had operated on the wrong patient.

Mrs. Abelson was returned to her room on the 4th floor after she spent 2 hours in the post-op.

Mrs. Abelson was in stable condition, however, the outcome of the extra surgery that was performed posed negative outcomes that could have increased the risks for a heart attack, internal bleeding, infection and risk of heart attack.

The hospital, primary physician, the surgical physicians, the surgical nurses were sued for malpractice. The settlement was 2 million dollars.

Please Use This Strategy When You Analyze A Case:

Identify the most important facts surrounding the case.

Identify the key issue or issues.

Specify alternative courses of action.

Evaluate each course of action.

Recommend the best course of action.

Answer 1

much publicity has been given to these high-profile cases of WSPEs, these errors are in fact relatively rare. A seminal study estimated that such errors occur in approximately 1 of 112,000 surgical procedures, infrequent enough that an individual hospital would only experience one such error every 5–10 years

The main fact was that they didn't even cross check the patient and the procedure that was performed

Issues

The patient will have adverse effects of the cardiac surgery

Even the death of the parties might take place

Alternative

Suggestions for change, in addition to the 5 issues within the practice of surgery that have inhibited improvement in quality are addressed in this article: (1) inadequate data about the incidence of adverse events, (2) inadequate practice guidelines or protocols and poor outcome analysis, (3) a culture of blame, (4) a need to compensate "injured" patients, and (5) difficulty in truth telling.