Medical Malpractice

Dr. A scheduled a consultation with an expert to identify whether he was a candidate for surgery. And he did have that consultation. The defendant doctor ultimately chose to have his surgery performed elsewhere. Generally, after a single consultation, there’d be no reason to formally terminate such a relationship. Regardless, many years passed. And now this same surgeon has reappeared as an expert witness in a medical malpractice case against Dr. A.

Medical Justice provides consultations to doctors facing medico-legal obstacles. We have solutions for doctor-patient conflicts, unwarranted demands for refunds, online defamation (patient review mischief), meritless litigation, and a gazillion other issues. If you are navigating a medico-legal obstacle, visit our booking page to schedule a consultation – or use the tool shared below. A fundamental tenet … Read more

Medical Justice provides consultations to doctors facing medico-legal obstacles. We have solutions for doctor-patient conflicts, unwarranted demands for refunds, online defamation (patient review mischief), meritless litigation, and a gazillion other issues. If you are navigating a medico-legal obstacle, visit our booking page to schedule a consultation – or use the tool shared below. all. Here’s a … Read more

Medical Justice provides consultations to doctors facing medico-legal obstacles. We have solutions for doctor-patient conflicts, unwarranted demands for refunds, online defamation (patient review mischief), meritless litigation, and a gazillion other issues. If you are navigating a medico-legal obstacle, visit our booking page to schedule a consultation – or use the tool shared below. David Hetzel, a … Read more

Every state manages Medical Board complaints differently. It often starts with a patient submitting a complaint. But not always. Sometimes, it’s a hospital, an insurance carrier, or another doctor who took care of your patient. The list is endless. Most complaints do NOT end in discipline for a doctor. But if a case evolves to … Read more

Medical Justice provides consultations to doctors facing medico-legal obstacles. We have solutions for doctor-patient conflicts, unwarranted demands for refunds, online defamation (patient review mischief), meritless litigation, and a gazillion other issues. We also provide counsel specific to COVID-19. If you are navigating a medico-legal obstacle, visit our booking page to schedule a consultation – or use the … Read more

Medical Justice provides consultations to doctors facing medico-legal obstacles. We have solutions for doctor-patient conflicts, unwarranted demands for refunds, online defamation (patient review mischief), meritless litigation, and a gazillion other issues. We also provide counsel specific to COVID-19. If you are navigating a medico-legal obstacle, visit our booking page to schedule a consultation – or use the tool … Read more

visit our booking page to schedule a consultation – or use the tool shared below. You are probably wondering how any penis surgery might be unauthorized. Read on. Keith Burchell went to Loma Linda University Medical Center in California for evaluation and treatment. Recall that in the 1970s, California implemented among the nation’s toughest tort … Read more

schedule a consultation. An Alaska dentist, Dr. Seth Lookhart, was sentenced to 12 years of prison for 46 charges including Medicaid fraud, embezzlement, reckless endangerment and unlawful dental acts. More on that in a minute. His prior claim to fame was extracting a tooth while on a Hoverboard. “[In 2016] he pulled a tooth from … Read more

Key points in this blog… In the event a doctor must settle a malpractice case, how can he keep his name off the National Practitioner Data Bank? In the event of a runaway verdict, how can a doctor protect his most important assets? When purchasing a malpractice insurance policy, why are consent to settle clauses so … Read more