Northeast Florida Medicine
Vol. 66, No. 1 2015
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VOLUME 66, NUMBER 1
Otolaryngology
Spring 2015
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Sunil Joshi, MD
MANAGING EDITOR
Kristy Wolski
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Ruple Galani, MD (Vice Chair)
James Altomare, MD
Kim Barbel-Johnson, MD
Mark Fleisher, MD
Ali Kasraeian, MD
Joseph Sabato, Jr., MD
James St. George, MD
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Bryan Campbell
DCMS FOUNDATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Todd Sack, MD
Secretary: Allen Seals, MD
Treasurer: Malcolm Foster, MD
At Large Seat 1: Ruple Galani, MD
At Large Seat 2: Eli Lerner, MD
2015 FOUNDATION DONORS
William P. Bosworth, DO
William P. Clarke, MD
Philip P. Gaillard, MD
Larry S. Garsha, MD
Russell D. Metz, MD
Eli Lerner, MD
Duke H. Scott, MD
N. H. Tucker, III, MD
MBB Radiology
Contents
Spring 2015
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Spring CME
Departments
Few medical errors are as vivid as those
that involve patients who have undergone
surgery on the wrong body part, undergone
the incorrect procedure or had a procedure
intended for another patient. These
“wrong-site, wrong-procedure, wrong-
patient errors” have been termed “Never
Events” as they are errors that should never
occur and that demonstrate underlying
safety problems. In February 2009, the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services announced that hospitals will
not be reimbursed for any costs associated
with WSPEs. (CMS has not reimbursed
hospitals for additional costs associated
with many preventable errors since 2007.)
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