Articles Tagged With: Malpractice
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New Checklist Offers Roadmap for Improved Diagnostic Performance
Emergency clinicians spend much time making diagnoses, but knowing they are right is another matter. The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine reports missed or delayed diagnoses are a major public health problem, leading to higher costs, malpractice claims, and potentially adverse outcomes for patients.
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Physician Phone Consultation Leads to Potential Liability
This case is an example of how a physician-patient relationship can be formed, even when no direct contact occurs between the physician and patient, or even when the physician is informally consulted by phone.
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Staffing Shortages Could Increase Liability Risks
Staffing shortages can cause a wide range of problems within a healthcare facility. Most of those issues can lead to greater liability risks. Risk managers are struggling to alleviate those risks even as the staffing challenge gets progressively worse. -
Failure to Diagnose and Treat Lupus May Support Liability for Psychiatrist
From the legal perspective, this case highlights the importance of experts for medical malpractice litigation and finding the right expert. Since the practice of medicine is a highly skilled and highly specialized field, it is critical for an expert to possess the requisite skill, knowledge, and experience to persuasively comment on pertinent issues.
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Debilitating Leg Surgery and Failure to Diagnose Results in $111 Million Verdict
In this matter, the principal issue is the physician’s failure to evaluate, diagnose, and treat the patient’s acute compartment syndrome. A failure to diagnose is an unfortunately common form of medical malpractice.
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Documentation Mistakes Lead to Significant Malpractice Awards
Ensure charts are generated honestly, and check to make sure key care decisions are carefully documented regarding consent.
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Documentation Mistakes Lead to Significant Malpractice Awards
Ensure charts are generated honestly, and check to make sure key care decisions are carefully documented regarding consent.
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Negligent Pacemaker Implantation Results in Malpractice Action
This case presents a common cause of malpractice actions: The failure to timely diagnose and treat a condition.
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Botched Hip Surgery Causes Patient’s Death, Potential Liability Years Later
This case holds both substantive and procedural lessons for care providers. Procedure can be equally as important as substance in defending against litigation. It is important to consult with counsel while reviewing the applicable facts and specific laws to understand potentially successful procedural challenges.
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Recurring Fact Patterns in Triage-Related Med/Mal Claims
Some malpractice lawsuits stem from what happens when the patient arrived at the ED — the triage nurse misses an emergency medical condition. If the triage process failed to identify a high-acuity patient requiring expedited care, then a plaintiff could allege the triage nurse breached the standard of care.