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Language discordance and patient care-Babel.
Huson TA. JAMA Intern Med. 2024;184:1287-1288.

Equitable, safe health care is affected by myriad socioeconomic factors. This commentary describes a near miss involving a mother who was unable to share concerns about her infant’s health due to language... Read More

Technology, Education and Safety.
Harbell MW, ed. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2024;37:666-742.

Despite consummate efforts to improve safety, errors still occur in anesthesiology. This special collection covers a range of topics affecting safe care in the specialty, including pain management, incident reporting,... Read More

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    The girl who cried pain: a bias against women in the treatment of pain.
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    • Hoffmann DE, Tarzian AJ. J Law Med Ethics. 2001;29(1):13-27.
    Gender inequities are well-documented in the assessment and treatment of pain. This review summarizes studies on gender differences in experiences and treatment of pain, and assessment of why these differences exist. Findings show there are many reasons for the underappreciation and undertreatment of women’s pain, including cultural expectations for how pain “should” look and attributing women’s pain to emotional or psychological causes.  
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    Missed diagnoses of acute cardiac ischemia in the emergency department.
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    • Pope JH, Aufderheide TP, Ruthazer R, et al. N Engl J Med. 2000;342(16):1163-1170.
    Missed or delayed diagnosis of cardiovascular disease can lead to adverse patient outcomes. This analysis examined the occurrence of missed acute cardiac ischemia among over 10,000 patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) and enrolled in a large multicenter trial. Among patients ultimately diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina, approximately 2% were mistakenly discharged from the ED; these patients had a higher risk of death compared to patients who were hospitalized. 
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    Our stubborn quest for diagnostic certainty.
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    • Kassirer JP. N Engl J Med. 1989;320(22):1489-1491.
    The topic of uncertainty has been largely neglected in the literature despite an understanding that diagnostic reasoning is largely probabilistic. This commentary acknowledges how uncertainty drives reasoning, test overuse, and physician discomfort to culminate in waste and reduced quality.
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