Imagine you’re an office-based physician with privileges to practice at a hospital where you do not take call. A patient you treated in the past presents to the Emergency Department at that hospital. You are asked to come in but decline, …
A physician defendant appears for deposition with her lawyer. To their surprise, plaintiff’s counsel brought along a “nurse advisor” to the deposition. This advisor was not a party, a party’s lawyer (or the lawyer’s employee) or an expert witness. Does …
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It happens more often than you’d think: hospitals underestimate the risk of staying out of an appeal. Imagine a Hospital and a Doctor, represented separately and with separate insurance policies, take a medical malpractice case to trial. The Doctor has …
Most physicians and medical practitioners are familiar with the legal phrase “reasonable person” – a person may be negligent if they did not act as a reasonable person would have acted under the circumstances. But did you know that in …
There is a high correlation between smart phone sales and people falling down stairs. There is also a high correlation between alcohol use and smoking. While these variables are related, one event does not directly cause the other. Plaintiff’s experts …