NEW YORK—Topping the list of the Emergency Care Research Institute’s “Top Ten Patient Safety Concerns” in 2025 is the dismissal of patient, family and caregiver concerns. In this edition of our series on anesthesia-related litigation, a patient and her family were not listened to, resulting in unfortunate outcomes that most likely could have been avoided. The case also revealed some of the vulnerabilities of being, or working with, a locum tenens provider.
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