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Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

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N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

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Archive > February, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 2

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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