Today we’d like to follow-up on a recent post of ours that was quite popular that talked about how errors in diagnosis result in the largest med mal payouts. To give us some really good perspective on the topic, we went to AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality) and are diving into their Patient […]

Have you ever thought about policing your employees and finding out what they do own their own time? Do you worry that your employees might be undermining the image of your practice? Recently, the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the Cleveland Clinic have banned the hiring of people who smoke. According to a recent […]

While social media has firmly established itself as a new way of communicating in nearly every corner of today’s society, it still remains full of landmines for physicians. They run the risk of accidentally breaking HIPAA regulations, of accidentally entering into doctor-patient relationships, and they run the risk of giving out inadequate medical advice by […]

A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, and reported on ChicagoTribune.com, will probably reinforce what many ER health care providers already know: just because discharge information is explained thoroughly, doesn’t mean that it is understood or that it will be retained. The study interviewed 395 people age 65 and older after being discharged from […]

A recent article posted on FoxNews.com, titled, “Failure to diagnose is top reason for suing doctors,” should give many physicians pause. Typically, when one thinks of medical malpractice and reasons for being sued, one usually conjures up visions of major medical errors and the accidental infliction of harm upon a patient. But, this is not […]

We know there are a lot of you out there who have resisted moving to an EHR solution.  However, you want to be able to take advantage of technology to communicate via email to your patients.  Can you do this, and should you? Well, unfortunately this is not an easy question to answer.  We here […]

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. […]

By Jennifer Lewis When was the last time you learned that one of the patients under your care had overdosed on a prescription drug? Deaths as a result of overdose have risen for the eleventh year in a row according to federal data, with the majority of these related to prescribed drugs. The latest figures […]

Every health care provider should learn about Josie King and her story. A lot of times, when we think of medical errors that result in death, we think of errors that are major and dramatic. But this was not the case with Josie King. Josie King was an 18-month old little girl who died from […]