Urgent Care Clinics have sprung up to fill a perceived gap in healthcare, available for folks who have needs that don’t rise to the level of an emergency room visit, or when it is inconvenient to see their primary doctor.
In a recent article in Journal of Patient Safety, it was reported that fewer than 2% of physicians were accountable for more than 50% of all settlement made in medical malpractice cases.
A new model of charting has popped up, one in which the doctors are wearing Google Glasses and the scribes aren’t next to them in the room, but remote.
In mass tort cases (i.e., case in which there are many claimants around the country) a firm can only handle such cases if it has a large number of clients and is willing to pay the very large costs associated with the litigation.
The pioneer of medical apologies states that simply telling the patient or family that the doctor is “sorry” for a bad outcome is not enough. The apology has to make clear that the doctor is accepting “ownership” and responsibility for the consequences.
The trend of hospitals acquiring private practices continues with the recent acquisitions by EvergreenHealth Medical Center.
A Life Care Plan is a plan that spells out the future needs associated with an injury-related disability, as well as the costs of those needs.
Recently top Republican politicians have cited the medical malpractice “crisis” as a threat to US health care. This includes frivolous lawsuits forcing doctors out of
A Pennsylvania start-up company is developing techniques to allow doctors to see what is going on in the brain when it suffers an injury — without opening up the skull.
While previous studies have indicated that giving safe harbor to doctors who apologize to patients for medical errors reduced malpractice claims, a more recent studies concluded the opposite.
