Dr. Le Roux's Case Summary

Art Beaumont, the newly hired president of MediSys Corp, created a core team in August 2008 in order to accelerate the IntensCare project. Team consisted technically competent employee in six areas: research and development, engineering, software design, production, marketing and regulatory affairs. Jack Fogel, a senior production manager was assigned the project leader. IntensCare project was very important to the success of Medisys but the team had very tight schedule. However, differences started to emerge soon after which obfuscated the future of IntensCare project.

In a confining hospital bed back in March 1942 at New Haven Hospital, thirty-three year old Anne Miller was at the brink of death. A delirious, semi-conscious woman with a 107 degree fever suffering from streptococcal infection, there seemed to be no hope for her. Her desperate doctors tried and failed every possible treatment they could think of from sulfa drugs to blood transfusions to surgery. There was one scrap of possibility left for the survival of Anne. Her doctor coincidentally had a different patient who was friends with an Australian pathologist working on developing an experimental drug that could possibly ward off infections such as these. Rushed in from a lab in New Jersey, the experimental drug was immediately injected into Anne

I feel that Dr. P has a case in this situation. I feel he has the ability to sue for compensatory damages. I would argue that Dr. P is a public figure. As you said he is the foremost academic on exposure to violence and the human psyche. Since he is a public figure and his work is important to public interest. Because of this we have to prove malice. In this case we also have to determine how defamation of DR. P is present. We have to answer how his reputation is being harmed, how his standing in the community is being harmed.

Introduction This case study is of a female patient of an Asian origin, who had been suffering from symptoms for a time that is unspecified. She visited her doctor and fainted whilst there, afterwards was rushed to hospital where she subsequently died. The inquiry into her death will conclude what symptoms may have led to this fatality, her medical history that could be a factor towards the diagnosis. The patient is 18 years-old, she had been suffering from an ongoing severe infection, she was given minocycline to treat it. However, the cause of the infection is also unknown.

J.L. is a 63-year-old white female who presented to the ER with right lower extremity pain and swelling with subsequent changes to the skin, including formation of bullous ulcers. She had blistering over the past four days that started to enlarge. The doctor prescribed her Bactrim. Erythema, swelling, and pain progressively got worse.  She denies any fever or chills.

Dr. Abeer has a hands-on patient care in the center under my direct supervision. She handled a variety of cases ranging from the strictly acute cares to the complex challenging ones. She took and documented patient vital signs, history and performed a proper physical examination. Then, she presented the cases and discussed the appropriate management plans with me. She showed a very good understating of the delivery of the health care system in the United States and the capability of providing excellent patient care in a consistently positive and skillful manner.

I am also filing a complaint that in January 2014, Dr. Derk attempted to perform surgery on me when I was experiencing overstimulation on my ovaries, due to IVF. I insisted she was not allowed to perform surgery on me, due to an overstimulation, because it would damage my uterus. I believe for a year, after my fibroid surgery, I dealt with chronic pain, due to Dr. Derk and Dr. Verhoeve malpractice of the surgery from July 2014. At this moment, I am being treated for post dramatic stress from a therapist.

This patient is a 49 year-old female who required inpatient hospitalization due to nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Ms. A came to the Emergency Department with a complaint of two day history of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Two days ago she started to have nausea and vomiting when she decided to visit Emergency Department of St. Luke Hospital where they had given her Benadryl, Tylenol and IV fluids. CBC and BMP were done which showed a WBC count of 1.7. Her symptoms didn’t improve and still continued to have three to four time watery diarrheas associated with nausea and vomiting. She stated to have abdominal pain with intensity of 5/10 in the right upper quadrant associated with vomiting. Her medical history was significant for DM type 2 with neuropathy, cerebrovascular accident, hypertension, and chronic headaches.

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On November 19, 2015 I went to Jefferson City, Missouri to watch the Missouri State Board of Nursing trials. This is where all nurses have to testify, if they have had disciplinary against them, or have had malpractice incidents. In the hearings we got the opportunity to watch, they were very similar cases. The cases both involved the nurses being on probation and then they violated probation.

Dr. Brown did not consider the prognosis and symptoms in his evaluations and since we are not be able to contact him to clarify (he’s out until 3/6), we will refer this case to Dr. Backlund. Please note that we are limiting our second opinion referrals due to our budget and to prevent substitution of judgment. While the POMS below are specifically to OQR cases, unless we find the MC non policy compliant we are substituting our judgment when requesting another MC review of the case. Please note that two different individuals can review the same case and arise at two different conclusions.

The malpractice case assigned to group E is that of a cancer patient who suffered an irreversible injury to the hand due to intravenous infiltration of a chemotherapeutic drug. Before a case can be filed against the nurse, a panel of

When you lose your loved one due to the negligence of someone, then you are entitled to file for compensation. Such type of lawsuit is known as the wrongful death lawsuit. You can file this lawsuit with the help of a competent Personal Injury Lawyer Lindsay. In this type of lawsuit, you are entitled for compensation for your losses in form of lost wages, companionship as well as the funeral expenses.

After reading this scenario about this patient, there are a few things that I wonder about and things that could have potentially contributed to this patient’s death. First, I do not understand why they did not place an Ewald tube down this patient and perform some sort of gastric lavage with activated charcoal (Gastric, 2017). They did all the work to stabilize the patient, but did not remove the remainder of the product, causing the acidosis. Basically, I feel that the patient came in with metabolic acidosis because of the aspirin, was stabilized, but then developed metabolic acidosis again. Which could have lead to a whole new list of complications to develop.

An emergency room physician named Dr. O’ Conner is known for having a bad temper and suspected of having a drinking problem. Although other employees have voiced their concern in regards to the physician’s behavior, no action has been taken to address the issues due to the shortage of physicians working in the Emergency Room. The nature of Dr. O’Conner’s behavior has resulted in a physical altercation between him and another hospital employee.