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Medical Malpractice Quiz
Hot Pack Puts Surgery Center in Hot Seat
Lorne B. Sheren, MD, Esq.

A pain management specialist, a subcontracted chiropractor, a PACU nurse and a patient walk into a surgery center. But this is no joke. A plastic surgon and a medical malpractice lawyer need to be consulted after a heating pad severely burns the patient's lower back and hip, allegedly because the nurse left a heating pad on his anesthetized back for too long.

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