Physician Risk Management – November 1, 2012
November 1, 2012
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Prove patient's non-compliance: A defense verdict might result
If a patient failed to see a surgeon after you diagnosed a malignant tumor in her breast, should this bar her from recovering any damages?Is emailing patients truly legally risky?
In one medical malpractice case, a psychiatrist emailed the husband of her patient, who had just been involuntarily committed by the psychiatrist.Warning! Patient might sue you for abandonment
Repeated missed appointments, non-compliance, or abusive behavior are some of the reasons a physician might seek to withdraw from providing further treatment to a patient, but what are the legal risks involved?Want to prevent lawsuit? Chart decision-making
If patients pursue litigation simply to get answers about what happened, they might be relieved to learn that no malpractice occurred.Physician Legal Review & Commentary: $1.73 million was awarded against a defendant physician for the failure to properly perform a paraspinal injection
News: A 24-year-old patient's estate was awarded $1.73 million against a physician for negligence in performing a paraspinal injection, medical malpractice, and wrongful death.Physician Legal Review & Commentary: $3 million verdict awarded for failure to follow-up, warn of risk of exertion in light of cardiac condition
News:In March 2009, a 31-year-old husband and father of two young sons was evaluated by a board-certified cardiologist with complaints of increasing episodes of chest pain radiating into his arm.