To improve outcomes for patients and control costs, we must reposition the patient at the center of the decision-making process — as the medical system I remember at the beginning of my medical career did.
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.
