By Sandra G. Boodman When Donna Helen Crisp, a 59-year-old nursing professor, entered a North Carolina teaching hospital for a routine hysterectomy in 2007, she expected ...
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Malpractice Reforms Offer More Open Process in Massachusetts
When a woman had gall bladder surgery at a Massachusetts hospital in 2013, doctors noticed something suspicious on a CT scan that they thought could ...
Read More »Limiting Malpractice Claims May Not Curb Costly Medical Tests
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Malpractice reform may not keep physicians from ordering unnecessary and expensive tests, a practice known ...
Read More »How Physician Practices Should Handle Malpractice Tail
By Daniel M. Bernick, JD, MBA For years and years, malpractice “tail” has been a thorn in the side of medical practices and their physician ...
Read More »Failure To Diagnose: The Next Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis
By Nicholas Gaudiosi I’ve thought for months about how to write this article and actually get my point across without sounding like a psychic, because ...
Read More »How Physicians Can Avoid Yet Another Malpractice Crisis (And Reduce Their Insurance Premiums)
By Barton L. Post Having witnessed the effects of several “malpractice crises”, I am anxious to avoid another. I have had the privilege of defending ...
Read More »Choosing a medical malpractice insurer
Now is a good time to re-visit the question of what should a physician look for in placing his or her professional liability coverage. A commitment to manage risk and manage claims is a key factor in a physician's choice.
Read More »Moving medical malpractice out of the courts
A liability by contract proposal to get medical malpractice out of the courts.
Read More »Anatomy of a malpractice lawsuit
Your evidence can help you to avoid a judgment or at least avoid a severe award. Your evidence (or lack of it) is also what causes a plaintiff’s attorney to take on a plaintiff’s case in the first place.
Read More »Top medical malpractice risk areas
The good news is that we understand more than ever before how to impact this liability. The open question is, Will we do anything about it? Two of the leading the areas of risk are physician-patient relationship and appropriate disclosure after an adverse event.
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