PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Warner, E.
TI  - Telling patients about medical negligence
DP  - 1983 Aug 15
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 366--368
VI  - 129
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/129/4/366.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/129/4/366.full
SO  - CMAJ1983 Aug 15; 129
AB  - A 7-year-old boy, diagnosed as having croup, develops an upper airway obstruction due to epiglottitis during the therapy, resulting in cerebral anoxia. Pediatricians to whom the boy is referred feel that failure to consider epiglottitis in the original diagnosis constitutes negligence. The parents suspect nothing. What should the pediatricians say or do?