Dr. Sundy's Case Analysis

Mark Skornia filed a complaint against Dr Kenneth Smith alleging mismanagement and misdiagnosis of the complications after his mother Arlene Skornia was admitted to Mercy Hospital in Washington, MO on August 13, 2013. Mr Skornia’s primary concerns are his mother did not receive nourishment for 7 days, Dr Smith lacked the ability to appropriately titrate pain medications, and Mrs Skornia was released from the hospital with no plan in place or consultation with the family.

The case study of Crowe v. Provost, 374 S. W. 2d. 645 (Tenn. 1963), was a highly-anticipated court case for the 1960’s. The following list pertaining to the example of what went wrong and by whom. The first patient appointment opens a file with the patient’s basic information and any allergies including medication(s). This would typically be done with the receptionist. If this was not the doctor’s first time seeing this patient, then the physician should have checked the chart to see if there were any allergies to anything including medication, such as, Penicillin and Cosa-Terrabon. Referring to the Crowe vs. Provost, the child was then rushed back into the doctor’s office with worsening symptoms, the nurse should have listened to the mother. The nurse, could have instructed the mother to take the worsening child to the nearest Emergency Department. The nurse advising the doctor, “That she thought the child was about the same as when the physician saw him earlier in the day” (Flight, M., 2011, page 5-6) was not a good idea. The doctor could have been brought in for an examination of the ailing patient. The receptionist returning from her lunch should not have been a signal for the nurse to leave for any reason with the patient getting worse. Again, the patient and mother should have been instructed to go to the nearest emergency room. The receptionist should not have been left alone with an ailing patient. Mistakenly, the receptionist calling the doctor first and

On the day of October 21, 2015 the accused, Johnny Joshua Uy was nearing the end of his trial. Mr. Uy's case was presided over by Madam Justice Power and was tried on the Supreme Court Criminal level; Mr. Uy also elected to be tried by judge and jury. Mr. Uy was charged with three serious indictable offences. The charges laid against the accused was importing/exporting a controlled substance, possession for the purpose of trafficking, and possession of a controlled substance. All three charges can be found under the Canada's Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The first charge importing/exporting a controlled substance can be found under section 6(1) of the act. Section 6(1) states: “Except as authorized under the regulations, no person

In the complaint, it is alleged that Dr. Rehman breached the relevant standard of care by discontinuing the pharmaceutical Glucovance, and by ordering insufficient monitoring of Ms. Green’s glucose levels; and that Millennium Health and Rehabilitation “failed to property monitor the deceased, ignor[ed] panic values on her labs, [and] misinterpreted the order discontinuing the Glucovance without order of [Dr.] Rehman.”

Physical Examination: General: The patient is an alert, oriented male appearing his stated age. He appears to be in moderate distress. Vital signs: blood pressure 132/78 and pulse 68 and regular. Temperature is 38.56 oC (101.4 oF). HEENT:Normocephalic, atraumatic. Pupils were equal, round, and reactive to light. Ears are clear. Throat is normal. Neck: The neck is supple with no carotid bruits. Lungs: The lungs are clear to auscultation and percussion. Heart: Regular rate and rhythm. Abdomen:Bowel sounds are normal. There is rebound tenderness with maximal discomfort on palpation in the right lower quadrant. Extremities: No clubbing, cyanosis, or edema.

On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at approximately 10:00am I obtained a statement from the complainant patient Walter Rysiejko located in the Greenberg Pavilion 2-North room 208.

On 5/13/2015 I met with Dr. Navato at Centerpoint Medical Center. Dr. Navato was familiar with the complaint as she had submitted a narrative response to the BHA in February of 2015. The allegation was that Dr. Navato did not honor a (Do Not Resuscitate) order.

According to Dr. Wechsler, the chair of the board meeting, the following statements summarized R. G.’s complaints against

Also, the secretary told me that the Doctor dude decided to move you to a different hospital, not to mention that she was hearing a rumor going around that Doctor Welsh’s assistant nurse believes that he is starting to turn insane and thinks he has anger issues. The assistant nurse as said that he never told you to stay still, therefore, we have the right to sue him since he began to yell at an innocent child,” Daddy said and came to a conclusion.

On 6/11/15 at 2:00 pm, I called Dr. McClain at his listed home number to confirm he was still in the area and to inquire if he would be available for an interview at some point. Dr. McClain began explaining that to his knowledge all of the complaints had been “kicked out” except for one case involving an ileostomy reversal. That complaint resulted from him being told not to have contact with patients since he was under investigation. The patient was upset because they could no longer see him, McClain stated.

Reviewing the article in its entirety, we are aware that the article focuses in the American Medical Association, but the same circumstances or situations that are highlighted within the context of the article could be an issue with any MCO Board of Directors that has willing participants from a wide-range of organizations that are members of the board. We acknowledge that there will or should be guidelines, principles, by-laws, Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, but as with the health care environment we are dealing with individual human beings and human nature.

And the fact he deemed it unnecessary to speak to the patient is a huge violation of the doctrine of consent and portrayed him to be an insufficient health leader by not following the guidelines put forth in all hospitals to abide by to ensure it’s best to the patients. His incompliant ways can affect the future of the hospital putting in jeopardy many jobs and lives.

They believed it was best not to confuse or upset patients with frightening terms they might not understand, like cancer. Doctors knew best, and most patients didn’t question that. Especially black patients in public wards ” (Skloot 63). If only Gey had told her it could have led to so many other scenarios, whether it would have been for the best or for the worst.

In this case study Dr.Williams is visited by Juan and his family , throughout the visit with Juan Dr.Williams acts very unprofessionally by refusing to speak to Juan during the visit or even to look at him instead only addressing his parents even when Juan Asked a question at which point Dr.Williams would answer Juans parents . Dr.Williams also dismissed the parents concerns and suggestions to speak to Juan's other doctors about his previous history with them. Furthermore Dr.Williams dismissed the fact that after his treatment plan the family was confused and instead of explain the treatment plan to the family he let themselves from the office without any answers. After this horrifying appointment for the family they decided to not return to Dr.Williams , however even with there no call no show Dr.Williams did not call the family back instead he aloud them to drop out of his care without ever bothering to find out why. In this paper I will evaluate what I would have done during an appointment with Juan and his familiy then I will describe what kind of

Compliment/Complaint/Grievance: Patient presented in ED w/ c/o left eye blindness. During his ED visit patient complains nursing staff was rude, non-communicative and no one answered the call light until after 2 hours. He indicates blood work was drawn twice totaling 9 vials of blood work obtained, and no one informed him the reason for the blood draws. He went to CT-Scan of the brain, and was not made aware of the results until Dr. Sinclair visit today. He also indicated Dr. Masse, came in to evaluate him after hours of waiting, informed him he was going to read the CT-Scan results and come be back to discuss in further details. The MD never returned to discuss the CT-Scan results with patient. Patient states his call light was on for