“Do You Moonlight?”

A post from the Student Doctor Network EM Section:
I moonlight in a single coverage rural (critical access) hospital. 4 beds, one nurse, 8 inpatient beds.
I also moonlight at a suburban 40,000 volume ED as triple coverage.
so, far at has been the single most invaluable experience of residency. The first time going to a rural [...]

Calling Into Question Whether “Apology Works”

From Kevin MD:
Apologizing after medical errors is the moral and ethical thing to do, but this attorney says otherwise.
Saying sorry can deny malpractice coverage, says attorney Steven Kern, and from a legal perspective, “saying I’m sorry is an admission. An admission is an exception to the hearsay rule, so anyone who hears it can be [...]

Rite Aid Settles With Feds Over Handling of Abuse-Prone Drugs

From the Wall Street Journal Health Blog:
Rite Aid has entered a $5 million civil settlement with the Justice Department over the way pharmacies in eight states handled controlled substances, drugs like pain pills that are prone to abuse. Rite Aid has agreed to set up a compliance plan meant to help “prevent diversion of controlled [...]

NY Settlement

From the NY Times:
In a settlement with one of the nation’s biggest insurers, New York’s attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, has ordered an overhaul of the databases the industry uses to determine how much of a medical bill is paid when a patient uses an out-of-network doctor.
A statement from Mr. Cuomo’s office said the [...]

Hospital Scrubs Are a Germy, Deadly Mess

From the Wall Street Journal:
You see them everywhere — nurses, doctors and medical technicians in scrubs or lab coats. They shop in them, take buses and trains in them, go to restaurants in them, and wear them home. What you can’t see on these garments are the bacteria that could kill you.
Dirty scrubs spread bacteria [...]