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6-second asystole and the patient blamed a nightmare

Last night was a crazy shift in a lot of ways, but the guy whose heart decided to take a quick 6 second break takes...

Free birthers charged with negligent homicide in Germany

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/prozess-neu-ulm-alleingeburt-baby-tot-mutter-grossmutter-li.3399923 Translation from Google: Complications arose during the home birth; no midwife or doctors were present. Now, the 30-year-old mother and the child's 58-year-old grandmother face charges...

New survey: Americans trust career scientists and their own doctors far more than the people running health agencies

[Originally posted in r/proactiveHealth](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProactiveHealth/s/PXlBft9izY) This survey dropped yesterday from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at UPenn and I think the data is worth discussing here, because...

FAST Scan Lawsuit [ Med Mal Case]

Link here: https://expertwitness.substack.com/p/fast-scan-lawsuit-trauma tl;dr Elderly man driving 15mph hits a pole, wearing seals belt, air bags deploy. Taken to ED, has lower right chest pain, CXR is normal. No...