You Are Not Alone: Ten Strategies for Surviving a Malpractice Lawsuit

You Are Not Alone: Ten Strategies for Surviving a Malpractice Lawsuit.

I wasn’t even scheduled to work that morning; I had just gone into the office for a meeting. Chatting with coworkers on my way out the door, I was told there was someone asking for me at the reception desk. So it was there, in front of a waiting room full of patients, that I received the papers notifying me of the lawsuit. “Have a nice day,” the woman called out to me as she left. Over the next...

You are not alone.

A DBT Support Group may be able to benefit you. DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) is a proven approach to therapy used to help persons who have difficulty managing emotions. • Like you keep "losing it?" • Like you have problems with anger and/or high levels of anxiety? • Drastic mood swings/ quickly shifting from one emotion to another? • Like harming yourself in any way? • Like relationships ...

You are not alone!

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,...

You are not walking alone in the PRP consensus road.

Dear Editor, this letter is a response to the article “Classification of platelet concentrates (Platelet-Rich Plasma-PRP, Platelet-Rich Fibrin-PRF) for topical and infiltrative use in orthopedic and sports medicine: current consensus, clinical implications and perspectives” by David M. Dohan Ehrenfest et al.1, published in a recent issue of Muscles, Ligaments and Tendon Journal. This review art...