In 1970, Pat Summerall and then-Boston Bruins' TV announcer Don Earle did a short post-game segment from inside the team's dressing room at the end of CBS' coverage of the fourth (and what turned out to be the final game) of the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals.
A circumstance in which both the health care provider's and the patient's actions contribute to an injurious outcome is termed contributory negligence. An example would be a patient who fails to follow the physician's orders or fails to show up for follow-up care and then sues when the condition causes permanent damage.
A patient with one or more chronic. conditions may have a medical need for, and accepted medical and nursing practice may require, observation and assessment, therapeutic care, and care management on an on-going basis. Nevertheless, for certain services, such as outpatient therapy services, Medicareâs policies. impose improvement standards that are inconsistent with the statute. The Medicare statute does. not demand a showing of improvement to find services medically necessary or to cover treatment. of an illness or injury.