In recent years, whistleblowers have unlocked some of the secrets of the nation’s operating rooms. Lawsuits against major teaching hospitals have exposed the practice of overlapping surgery with surgeons double- or triple-booking procedures to a degree that calls into question their ability to provide proper care for the individual patient. In fact, procedures for many patients are placed in the hands of less skilled residents and fellows.
Attorneys Reuben Guttman and Joseph Lanni, discuss these practices in their article for the Emory Law Scholarly Commons at Emory Law School. Read the full article here,
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