In a trial in Pennsylvania involving the misdiagnosis of a child’s bowel obstruction, the risk manager of a hospital testified that she provided altered documents to the plaintiff’s lawyer.

The chief executive officer and another top official of a city hospital knowingly gave dozens of altered
documents to plaintiffs’ attorneys in a medical malpractice case, according to court testimony.

Ann Marie Zimmerman, risk manager of Mercy Hospital, testified that she
provided 67 altered documents at the direction of a hospital attorney,
even though she, the attorney and CEO James May
knew the documents had information deleted from them.

Not a good position for the Hospital.  Even if the judge directs the jury to ignore the information, it is going to leave a bad impression about that hospital with the jury.

Source:  Mcall.com

2/3 of pulmonary embolism cases are misdiagnosed. Over 600,000 cases of pulmonary embolism occur every year and only 1/3 are ever diagnosed correctly.   The problem with missing this diagnosis is that your chances of surviving a second pulmonary embolism are very low.

Symptoms:

• Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
• Chest pain
• Some sort of shock (sometimes low blood pressure)
• Syncope (fainting)

Diagnostic tests used to find Pulmonary Embolism:

• Chest x-ray
• Sometimes you will see the doctors rule out a DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis)
• Blood gases to check for oxygen levels