RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Telling patients about medical negligence
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 366
OP 368
VO 129
IS 4
A1 Warner, E.
YR 1983
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/129/4/366.abstract
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?