Nearly every nurse can tell stories about doctors who yelled at them in public, threw scalpels across the operating room, ignored calls to come to a patient’s bedside, or otherwise acted in an arrogant and abusive way. While this behavior used to be tolerated as an inevitable byproduct of working in a high-stress environment, health….
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Risk Disclosure and Organ Donation
Recently, four organ transplant patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis–a rare occurrence. One of the patients claims, through her lawyer, that the risks of the procedure were not disclosed to her. A major issue here is that the kidney donor was considered “high risk” by the standards set by the Centers for Disease Control….
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