The device that controlled the drainage was made of magnet and the patient had an MRI post-surgery. Had Dr. Khalil Khalaf checked–as his patient had asked repeatedly–he would have seen the device was set for maximum flow.
Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. Dr. H. Jaye Goldstein talks about an obstetrics miracle he still things about decades later.
Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. Dr. Kimberly Fernandes talks about the digging sometimes needed to uncover the full picture of an injury.
New consensus promotes use of bag-mask or mouth-to-mask ventilations rather than mouth-to-mouth, plus other safety measures to avoid COVID19 transmission to rescuers.
Sometimes it’s the little things that bring joy to medicine. Hear from members of the Medical Post’s physician advisory board and other doctors, an alphabet’s worth for our Joy Issue.
The survey found 51% of those working in emergency departments and intensive care units said the pandemic has made them more likely to leave the profession in the next two years.
