Oklahoma residents sometimes suffer from rare diseases. Unfortunately, doctors sometimes mistake the symptoms of a rare disease for other disorders and fail to diagnose them. This can result in the doctor providing the wrong treatment or delaying it, causing further...
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Cancer doctor faces medical board efforts to revoke license
Oklahoma residents who have followed the career of physician Stanislaw Burzunski, a popular but controversial doctor who treats cancer patients, may have heard that he is under investigation by the Texas medical board that is trying to revoke his license. The doctor...
Decision by NHTSA clears obstacle for self-driving cars
Oklahoma motorists who have followed the progress of the development of self-driving cars may be interested in a decision by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration that clears some obstacles out of the way. According to a Feb. 4 letter from the...
Oklahoma trucking accident leaves 2 injured
An Oklahoma City accident semi-truck has left two people with minor injuries. The collision occurred on the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 and Interstate 44 and resulted in the highway being closed for nearly five hours. Oklahoma Highway Patrol officials reported...
Volvo aims to make vehicles that are “death-proof”
Oklahoma drivers may be happy to hear that Volvo has promised that its vehicles will prevent injuries and fatalities to their occupants by 2020. The Swedish automaker has been tracking the number of injuries and deaths that occur in its vehicles for some time.Many...
Avoiding a failure to diagnose the need for chemotherapy
One of the difficulties doctors have experienced when treating patients diagnosed with colon cancer has been in knowing when to use chemotherapy following surgical removal of tumors. According to a recent study, Oklahoma oncologists might avoid a misdiagnosis by using...
Reducing surgical errors
Surgical errors are a common form of medical malpractice in Oklahoma and around the country. A team at Oxford University in England has conducted studies about how to reduce them. Two approaches were common in surgical error prevention previously. One involved trying...
Higher concussion risk, longer recovery for women
While there is a great deal of focus on concussions sustained by men during sports, there has been less attention given to the same types of injuries in women. The American Journal of Sports Medicine found that in high school sports, girls get concussion at twice the...
Oklahoma patients and strategies for medication error prevention
Oklahoma patients may be interested in these strategies suggested for nurses for preventing medication errors. The first is to ensure the five rights of medical administration related to transcription. Nurses are required to ensure that correct medication is...
Five rights for avoiding medication errors
Nurses in Oklahoma who are concerned about giving medication to patients safely can follow what is known as the five rights. These are the things that should be confirmed before medication is administered.The first is the patient's identity. A name, identification...
