Emergency Room Error
An emergency room may be busy, teeming with people and staffed by overworked hospital employees. Emergency room errors, also called ER errors, occur when a nurse, doctor or resident misdiagnoses or fails to diagnose a medical condition for what it actually is. In some situations, this may cause no lasting damage to a patient. In other cases, a person could lose his or her life due to an emergency room error.
For example, a man goes to the emergency room complaining of severe chest pains. If not thoroughly examined within a reasonable period of time, this man may never know that he is suffering the early signs of a heart attack - until it is too late.
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