Chances are you've experienced long wait times for routine medical appointments, delays in securing hospital beds for emergency room patients, difficulty scheduling surgeries or even minor procedures, incredibly unsatisfying engagement and follow-up, and harried, overworked staff.
Inspectors found that an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital made numerous errors in administering epidurals. Some were life-threatening. One was fatal.
Many doctors worry that the drugs' current popularity, fueled in part by social media, has resulted in people taking them without sufficient medical supervision.
