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Malpractice

  • Survival Tips for the First Step of a Malpractice Lawsuit

    “They showed up at my door to serve me. … I was in my pajamas.” “I was...
  • Inconsistent Records & Insufficient Imaging Complicate Malpractice Case

    Patients often present to the emergency department with multiple symptoms that do not fit clearly into one...
  • I’ve Been Sued for Medical Malpractice—Now What?

    When I was first named in a medical malpractice lawsuit, I was working solo nights in a...

Survival Tips for the First Step of a Malpractice Lawsuit

October 21, 2019 - Gita Pensa, MD - 0 Comment

“They showed up at my door to serve me. … I was in my pajamas.” “I was…

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Inconsistent Records & Insufficient Imaging Complicate Malpractice Case

September 24, 2019 - Eric Funk, MD - 0 Comment

Patients often present to the emergency department with multiple symptoms that do not fit clearly into one…

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I’ve Been Sued for Medical Malpractice—Now What?

August 20, 2019 - Gita Pensa, MD - 3 Comments

When I was first named in a medical malpractice lawsuit, I was working solo nights in a…

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The Updated National Practitioner Data Bank Reporting Requirements

February 13, 2019 - Kenneth Alan Totz, DO, JD, FACEP - 0 Comment

Congress enacted the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (Title IV) in 1986, which created the National Practitioner…

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Lessons Learned from Court Case that Weakened Peer-Review Protection

November 14, 2018 - Kenneth Totz, DO, JD, FACEP - 0 Comment

On March 27, 2018, the the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania sent every emergency medicine contracting group scrambling…

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Emergency Physicians Should Know Risks Entailed in Discharging Patients with Pending Blood Cultures

August 16, 2017 - Charles A. Pilcher, MD, FACEP - 0 Comment

I feel that your article [“Admit or Not?”, May 2017] in ACEP Now was a bit too…

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New Mexico Supreme Court Ruling Helps Ensure Patient Care Across State Lines

July 11, 2017 - James Williams, DO, MS, FACEP - 0 Comment

A recent New Mexico Supreme Court decision has huge professional liability ramifications for physicians treating patients from…

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How to Handle a Medical Mistake

April 13, 2016 - Catherine A. Marco, MD, FACEP - 1 Comment

Error in judgment must occur in the practice of an art which consists largely of balancing probabilities.—William…

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Opinion: Physicians May Be Slow to Change Behaviors, Even With Threat of Malpractice

March 16, 2015 - William E. Gotthold, MD - 3 Comments

The article by Dr. Waxman in the January 2015 issue of ACEP Now [“What Is Really Driving…

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Threat of Malpractice Lawsuits May Not Be Driving Defensive Medicine

January 20, 2015 - Daniel Waxman, MD, PhD - 1 Comment

One of the great things about publishing in The New England Journal of Medicine is that old…

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