TY - JOUR T1 - Telling patients about medical negligence JF - Canadian Medical Association Journal JO - CMAJ SP - 366 LP - 368 VL - 129 IS - 4 AU - E. Warner Y1 - 1983/08/15 UR - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/129/4/366.abstract N2 - A 7-year-old boy, diagnosed as having croup, develops an upper airway obstruction due to epiglottitis during the therapy, resulting in cerebral anoxia. Pediatricians to whom the boy is referred feel that failure to consider epiglottitis in the original diagnosis constitutes negligence. The parents suspect nothing. What should the pediatricians say or do? ER -