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Quality of heart surgery still a problem, as is hospitals’ responses

Por: The Boston Globe Opinion November 06, 2022

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I’ve been following the of a New Hampshire heart surgeon’s malpractice settlements and the institutional failure to respond. Some Globe readers may recall a similar series of reports 46 years ago.Those reports documented a Boston-area surgical team’s dismal mortality results — 52 percent in one hospital, 25 percent in another, at a time when anything over 5 percent was deemed excessive. A whistle-blower called hospital leadership’s... + full article



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