Money is a great way to incentivize people –but should it be used in medicine to achieve better outcomes with patients? Is this a smart idea that has been successfully used in other areas of the traditional business world and should it be translated to the medical world? Or, is there something slightly off-putting about […]

With last year’s election firmly cementing the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) into the American healthcare system, physicians wanting to maintain practice independence are looking for different economic models that would offer them the necessary revenue stream without joining a large healthcare system to ensure adequate patient flow. I had the opportunity to […]

As we promised with our first Google Glass article, we are continuing to write about this fascinating, new technology, that also has us a bit weary. A recent article of interest on CNet.com, about Stanford Physician, Dr. Abraham Verghese, discusses his use of Google Glass with the Stanford Medicine 25 initiative. The program includes hands-on […]

MITSS, Medically Induced Trauma Support Services, is an organization that every care giver should know about. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that we often write about medical errors and the frequent, resulting fall-out of charges of medical malpractice on care givers. But, today, instead of talking about the consequences […]

The New York Times recently had a very interesting article, titled, “Nightmares After the ICU,” and we’re not talking about the bills the patients receive after their stay. But seriously, the article dives deeply into the idea that stays in the ICU can be so traumatic and stressful that they can cause PTSD. And, research […]

We love advances in technology over at My Medical Malpractice Insurance. Especially when they can help doctors lower their risks and speed up complex surgeries that saves lives. Science Translational Medicine published a study conducted at the medical school at Imperial College London about the uses of a new tool called the  iKnife last week. […]

Since 1975, California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA) has been the golden standard of medical liability tort reforms. Signed into law during the nation’s first medical malpractice insurance premium crisis, MICRA instituted a cap of $250,000 on non-economic (pain-and-suffering) damages, capped the percentage of an award available for attorney fees, shortened the statute of […]

I recently came across an interesting post on SorryWorksBlog.net that discussed reforming the National Practitioner Data Bank (and state licensure boards) to acknowledge physicians who make an error, disclose it, apologize and offer compensation. Because of the growing disclosure movement, the organization would like to see that physicians who disclose errors be treated differently from […]

This is a really interesting Ted Talk by a young surgeon named Peter Attia. He has now made it his mission in life to investigate the relationship between nutrition, obesity and diabetes. He asks medical professionals around the world to have an open mind about what we know and what we don’t know.