Pharmacist testifies in a physician malpractice lawsuit

Practical strategies for defense in malpractice lawsuit: a case illustration.

UNLABELLED This report describes an unprecedented malpractice litigation on a neurology case. A young woman developed multiple complications after a simple hysterectomy: pan-peritonitis, post-op deep coma with hypotension, generalized anasarca, hyponatremia, hemolysis, cerebral hypoxia and renal shutdown requiring dialysis and multiple-unit blood transfusions. She survived 43 days in Neuro-ICU,...

Will Saying "I'm Sorry" Prevent a Malpractice Lawsuit?

Physician medical malpractice

Malpractice insurance premiums for physicians have increased at an average rate of over 30 percent per year. This rate is significantly higher than health care cost inflation and the increase in physician costs. Trends indicate that malpractice related costs, both liability insurance and defensive medicine costs, will continue to increase for the near future. Pressures to limit physician costs ...

Physician–Pharmacist Collaborative Management

Over 80 million American adults were diagnosed with hypertension in 2011, and there was a 39% increase in deaths related to hypertension between 2001 and 2011. Hypertension was associated with $46.4 billion in direct and indirect costs in the United States in 2011. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data analyses have found that individuals from under-represented minority groups o...

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