Medicolegal Issues
Medicolegal Issues
Malpractice Counsel: Retained foreign body, ruptured esophagus
Medicolegal Issues
Malpractice Counsel: Too much medication, hot red knee
Medicolegal Issues
Malpractice Counsel: Bicycle fall, hemodialysis complication
Commentaries on cases involving a 52-year-old man with chest and shoulder injuries from a bicycle accident, and a 58-year-old man with bleeding...
Law & Medicine
Law & Medicine: Which doctors get sued?
Medicolegal Issues
Malpractice Counsel: Constipation, missing diabetes
Commentaries on cases involving a 26-year-old woman with a history of chronic constipation and a 27-year-old man with a 3-day history of severe...
Medicolegal Issues
Malpractice Counsel: Allergic Reaction Versus Anaphylaxis
Commentary on a case involving a 34-year-old woman who presented twice to the same ED for evaluation of symptoms of an allergic reaction.
Medicolegal Issues
Malpractice Counsel: Necrotizing fasciitis, corneal abrasion
Medicolegal Issues
Malpractice Counsel: Aneurysm, Falls
Commentaries on cases involving a 52-year-old woman with vaginal bleeding and left leg pain, and the stretcher collapse and subsequent fall of a...
Practice Economics
Malpractice premiums flat in 2015, but changes could be ahead
Physicians paid about the same in medical liability insurance premiums in 2015 as they did in 2014. A nationwide survey of insurers by the Medical...
Practice Economics
HHS: Expand antidiscrimination protections to transgender patients
Transgender patients who receive health care via government programs or funding must receive equal access to treatments and insurance coverage,...
Practice Economics
Value-based care poses new legal risks for doctors
The government’s push toward value-based care aims to fix a broken reimbursement system and improve quality of care for patients. But the new...