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Coping with a medical malpractice suit.

Medical work is highly stressful, and physicians increasingly feel loss of control over their clinical decision making. Nonetheless, most physicians are competent and achieve a reasonable level of satisfaction in their personal and professional lives that serves as good preparation for managing the litigation experience (box 1). Physicians are especially challenged, however, when an unexpected ...

Radiologic errors and malpractice: a blurry distinction.

pproximately 4% of radiologic interpretations rendered by radiologists in their daily practice contain errors [3]. Fortunately, most of these errors are of such minor degree, or if serious are found and corrected with sufficient promptness, that they do not cause injury to patients. Nevertheless, many radiologic errors do harm patients and, as a result, medical malpractice lawsuits are generate...

Don't be a target for a malpractice suit.

As you know, being a family physician is an extraordinary challenge. Each day, we take care of patients who present to us with multiple complaints affected by an infinite number of unknown variables. In the precious few moments that we have with each patient, we discuss these issues, sort details from a data stream over which we have little control and develop what we hope is an accurate histor...

Legally Speaking: Malpractice suit revolves around damaged ureter

The patient, a 45-year-old G3, P1-0-2-1 with a long history of uterine fibroids, was admitted to the defendant hospital center under the care of the defendant obstetrician/gynecologist on April 26 for a total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO). The patient had been treated on and off by the defendant ob/gyn for over 5 years for left-sided fibroids and had tr...

Respondents in Discovery: A Pre-Suit Answer to the Medical Malpractice Crisis?