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BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITISVolume 2, Issue 7, February 1997
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PRACTICE POINTS:
Negligence in preventing Bacterial Endocarditis is difficult to prove.Delay of weeks before diagnosis is not in itself substandard.
SECONDARY GAIN
PRACTICE POINTS:
Objective assessment of the level of pre-accident functioning often requires laborious and meticulous analysis of previous medical records.Psychologists and psychiatrists, rather than orthopedic surgeons and physiatrists, are the appropriate specialists to debate consciousness of secondary gain for legal purposes.
PERITONEAL ADHESIONS
PRACTICE POINTS:
Adhesion formation is almost universal after abdominal and pelvic surgery.Symptoms and complications from Adhesions are factors of quantum after both compensable personal injury and remedial surgery following medical negligence.
Proof of negligent cause would generally require forensic surgery.
INFORMED CONSENT
PRACTICE POINT:
Prevalent Japanese attitudes highlight the continuing ambivalence of some Western physicians and patients about grim truth disclosure.
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