A California plastic surgeon made national headlines recently after he appeared at a virtual meeting in court to answer a traffic charge, giving what may be one of the clearest examples ever of the problems that modern technology can cause with patient care. There was...
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How do you deal with patients that self-diagnose?
You want your patients to be active and involved in their own health care -- but that doesn’t mean you want them to spend hours on Google second-guessing you. Statistics gathered by Pew Research Center, however, indicate that roughly 35% of the adults in this country...
How patients can actively prevent doctors from diagnosing them
As a physician, a significant amount of your education will have focused on the symptoms of various conditions and how to evaluate a patient to reach a reasonable diagnosis. Diagnostic skill may be one of the most critical services that a physician provides by helping...
What does “standard of care” mean in a medical malpractice claims?
If you have been accused of medical malpractice, the patient may claim that you did not give them the standard of care that they were expecting. That’s the reason that they think you were at fault. You know that the term “standard of care” is going to be crucial to...
Medical malpractice doesn’t just mean a poor outcome
When making a claim of medical malpractice, the person making that claim needs to show that the medical professional was negligent in some manner. Just not getting the outcome that they want is not nearly enough. For instance, perhaps you’re a surgeon who often works...
Want to avoid a medical malpractice lawsuit? Here are some tips
A medical malpractice lawsuit isn’t just potentially costly -- it can also damage your reputation and credibility as a physician. A lawsuit is also tremendously time-consuming, taking you away from both your patients and your growing practice. Frankly, no physician...
A medical emergency isn’t always a result of an error
As a medical provider, you took an oath to do no harm. When your patient came down with complications from a procedure, you did everything you could to stop the complications from injuring them further. You took immediate steps to help them, but they did not recover...
Patient noncompliance is a common defense to malpractice suits
Medical malpractice claims are some of the biggest risks that doctors have to deal with as part of their chosen profession. Malpractice lawsuits, when successful, can result in hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in compensation. It can be particularly...
Medical providers: Protect yourselves against medical malpractice
There are plenty of times when patients believe they've been victimized by their medical providers, even though the medical provider couldn't have known that anything would go wrong. A patient may have failed to inform the provider about a medication they were on or...
Medical malpractice and what you can do to fight claims
In medical malpractice cases, it's often the medical provider who is accused of wrongdoing when they may not be to blame. Mistakes made by others could fall on them, or complications they could not imagine would occur could be used to claim errors happened when the...