Granted, this is just an anecdote, but it is hard for me to believe that, if this could go on for years, it is the only actual case of corruption in the state (or in many other states).
According to the Hattiesburg American headline, “Attorney Minor, two judges to be sentenced Thursday.” The Attorney, Paul [...]
It’s good to be back in my part of the blogosphere. Today I noticed a couple of medmal-related posts from KevinMD. Kevin posts on Defensive Medicine in the News, that two recent articles confirm his own conviction that “defensive medicine” is a way that medical malpractice litigation is costing everyone. The articles [...]
Since the main blogger for the Keane Insurance Group (that’s me) will be going out of town for a week, blogging will slow for awhile. The Medmal blog will resume at the very end of July and the beginning of August, continuing the conversation about medical malpractice issues as they are found in the news [...]
FoxNews ran a story today entitled, “Bluetooth Technology Allows Heart Monitors to Contact Hospitals Automatically.”
A study published Tuesday in Inderscience’s International Journal of Electronic Healthcare found a wearable “Telemedicine” Bluetooth heart device is able to send text messages to local hospitals when the heart shows signs of extreme distress.
The Bluetooth heart monitor regularly records a [...]
Panda Bear, MD has posted a nice long entry (“A rambling conversation with a lumbering Asian Bear-Mammal”) that includes a great deal on the medmal situation doctors find themselves in.
Protestations of various oleaginous lawyers and policy experts to the contrary, litigation and more importantly, the threat of litigation has a profound impact on how medicine [...]
Doctor-Patient Relationship is An Endangered Species is not a blog about medmal rates or any issue related to medical malpractice–at least not as far as I can tell from what Dr. Ben Brewer writes. But I can’t help but think that this should be considered a factor.
One of the joys of being a family [...]
I’ve put on my amateur economist hat before and predicted that out of control medical malpractice lawsuits will result in fewer doctors. I don’t mean that doctors will become more expensive because they pay higher medmal rates, thought that is also a problem. I mean that at some point you reach the place [...]
Kevin MD has continued blogging with a couple of more posts about medical malpractice concerns.
The first questions he raises is, “Do electronic medical records raise malpractice risk?” This sounded counterintuitive to me, but the article he links–”Will an EHR affect your malpractice risk?“–raises concerns I had not thought of.
One issue that Kevin himself quotes is [...]
Kevin, MD has posted about communication and medical malpractice today, linking an article in the online Medical Economics magazine that is about avoiding medmal litigation.
In his post, “Controlling patients’ expectation,” he mentions “a core tenet of risk management,” which is to communicate realistic hopes and fears about a test or treatment by taking time [...]
This series is only several months old, but in blog time that counts as a millennium.
The Surgeonsblog recently mentioned that he had posted about his ordeal in a medical malpractice case. Below are the links to the three posts. I quote a few highlights (and leave out a few things that are more [...]
