ER docs highlight toxic health care myths

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This podcast was originally published on August 13, 2018. For more background information and helpful links visit: https://www.healthnewsreview.org/podcastmedia/podcast-emergency-docs-highlight-toxic-health-care-myths/ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* A trip to the emergency department is never a welcome experience, but it can be made worse -- or even be triggered by -- a patient's unrealistic expectations. Veteran emergency doctors Jerome Hoffman, M.D., and Greg Henry, M.D., discuss how misleading media messages can feed myths that lead to patient harms, and what patients and physicians can do about it.