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Survival Tips for the First Step of a Malpractice Lawsuit

By Gita Pensa, MD | on October 21, 2019 | 0 Comment
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Dr. PensaDr. Pensa is clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island; associate director (education) of the Emergency Digital Health Innovation program at Brown; and creator and host of the podcast “Doctors and Litigation: The L Word.”

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