How PAs Can Avoid Malpractice: Go Back to Practice Basics

How PAs Can Avoid Malpractice: Go Back to Practice Basics

Darcy Lewis

May 23, 2022

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INDIANAPOLIS — Two days after her father was admitted to the hospital from his nursing home with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a woman presented to urgent care with fever, chills, chest discomfort, body aches, and mild tachycardia. The physician assistant recorded "no wheezing or rhonchi, positive mild congestion" before diagnosing an upper respiratory infection and prescribing azithromycin "just in case" a secondary bacterial infection developed.

Soon afterwards, the woman was admitted in respiratory distress with a diagnosis of influenza and MRSA pneumonia. She died a few days later

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