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Who’s to Blame for Unfair Litigation?

By Gita Pensa, MD | on April 14, 2020 | 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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References

  1. Andrew L. ACEP member medical-legal survey results. ACEP Now. 2012;31(4).
  2. Expert witness guidelines for the specialty of emergency medicine. ACEP website. Accessed March 26, 2020.
  3. Martyr for a cause? FierceHealthcare website. Accessed March 26, 2020.
  4. Moffett P, Moore G. The standard of care: legal history and definitions: the bad and good news. West J Emerg Med. 2011;12(1):109-112

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