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The Dallas Morning News (8/1, Dunklin, Ambrose) reported that “national medical research increasingly supports the long-held concern that poor supervision of doctors-in-training at teaching hospitals contributes to patient harm, even death.” Two months ago, a study led by University of California-San Diego researchers “reported a 10 percent increase nationally in medication errors that killed patients during the month of July, the traditional start date for new residents.” A 2008 report by the Institute of Medicine “urged that residency programs have ‘measurable standards,’ such as when and how residents consult faculty doctors.” This summer, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education proposed “updated guidelines that are to be refined before adoption next year.”
I hope meaningful changes are made soon regarding the manner in which residents are supervised. I recognize the importance of training residents, but giving them too much independence too soon threatens patient safety, leading to terrible medical problems. I represent many people who were severely injured as a result of unsupervised medical care. Proper supervision would likely have lead to appropriate medical care. Instead, the people I represent will have to endure a lifetime of physical and emotional anguish.
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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2010)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in America.
Mr. Zambri is regularly asked to present seminars to lawyers and doctors, as well as both medical and law students concerning medication errors, medical malpractice litigation, and safety improvements.
If you have any questions about your legal rights, please email Mr. Zambri at [email protected] or call him at 202-822-1899.
