How to win a lawsuit based on a lack of evidence.
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A perfect (hypothetical) example of why doctors hate and fear the malpractice tort system.
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You would think that the ER and hospital staff put forth the effort to get an accurate list of every patient's home medications. Far too frequently, you'd be wrong.
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Even malpractice litigation that is without merit and is aborted in the early litigation process incurs significant legal costs that are ultimately passed on to the health care system at large.
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Like John Gotti’s lawyer denying the existence of organized crime in America, trial lawyers have been denying for years that defensive medicine exists or if it does then it’s not so prevalent as to have any significant economic impact. Strictly defined, defensive medicine is the practice of ordering or performing tests and/or procedures or...
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Many stand on their soap boxes and proclaim that politics and patient care should not mix. But mix they do and the simple act of patient care does not strip the physician of their first amendment rights.
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When the insurance company denies a requested test or procedure, physicians would be well advised to avoid expressing their opinions about this denial in the chart.
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We know these people by different names. All too often they use and abuse our legal systems to spread their misery throughout the world.
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Trial lawyers and Democrats already know what happens to the practice patterns of physicians when their malpractice liability goes up. That's why Washington has all but ignored national medical malpractice reform lately.
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What if a patient or family member secretly records your conversation. Is this legal. Is this a medical legal crisis? Should you freak out? Should you call your lawyer or the police? Or should you be polite and remain calm?
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