Where Has All the Trust Gone?
The close relationship between Americans and “the neighborhood doctor” is a strong piece of American mythology. People implicitly trust physicians to use their specialized training to make decisions patients may not fully understand, but always trust. At least, that’s the way things used to be. … Read more
Real Reform or Just Whack-a-Mole
Last week, the NC State Senate approved changes in the state’s medical malpractice laws; including provisions to give emergency room doctors more protection against lawsuits (changing their malpractice standard from ordinary negligence to gross negligence) and a cap non-economic damages for patients at $500,000 (economic … Read more
Are You Making the #1 Physician Financial Mistake?
David B. Mandell, JD, MBA and Jason M. O’Dell, CWM As authors of 4 books for physicians, including our latest, For Doctors Only: A Guide to Working Less & Building More, we have consulted with thousands of doctors of all specialties during the last decade. … Read more
New Research Project
Michael J. Sacopulos, Esq. It was tennis star Andre Agassi that said “Image is everything.” Okay, he overstated it, but Andre did have a point. Image matters. But does it matter for an expert review of a patient’s chart in evaluating a potential medical malpractice … Read more
The Next Legal Frontier: Opening the Floodgates for Veterinary Malpractice
Jeff Segal, MD, JD, FACS A story from WHYY Philadelphia News caught our attention. Philadelphia resident David Siff took his sick cat to the veterinarian. The doctor’s diagnosis: fur ball; which did not seem right, at least to Siff. Nonetheless, Siff deferred to the vet’s … Read more
Supply and Demand, Healthcare Style
As we consider ways to improve health care and its costs in this country, perhaps we should be thinking of physicians as the valuable economic resource to society that they are. We clearly have an impending shortage of physicians to address the demographic tsunami – … Read more
Informed Spousal Consent: A Great Idea Worth Spreading
Jeff Segal, MD, JD, FACS I was thumbing through General Surgery News recently and read an article espousing a great idea; an idea worth spreading. Philip Schaurer, MD, and Jim Saxton, Esq. wrote about adding a spouse’s name to the informed consent document. Informed consent, … Read more
Your Mother Was Right
Michael J. Sacopulos, Esq. Doctors are busy, enough said. The problem is too many doctors are not getting enough sleep. According to a recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) article “sleep deprivation adversely affects clinical performance and impairs psychomotor performance as severely as alcohol … Read more
Bill to Make Doctors Histories Available Moves to Senate
Bill to make detailed IL doctors’ histories available moves to Senate According to a recent Chicago Tribune article, a bill (Patients’ Right to Know Act) in Illinois that has already made its way through the House and is on its way to the Senate could … Read more
Rating Sites and the Worst Possible Interpretation Part II
This is part II of Rating Sites Sometimes Err on the Side of the Worst Possible Interpretation Jeff Segal, MD, JD, FACS Doctor B.’s record was blemished on a separate rating site. The blemish: “Doctor B. was sanctioned in the past”; sanction being defined as … Read more
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