Many pieces have been written over the years about defensive medicine and how it raises the cost of health care and provides unnecessary care to patients. But, a recent article in The New Yorker takes this information a bit further. “Overkill,” by Atul Gawande shows us how such care is actually harming patients both physically […]

Welcome to the new Cunningham Group Insurance website! To our longtime readers, thanks for following us here. For those of you who are new, welcome, we also used to be MyMedicalMalpracticeInsurance.com. Why did we join forces with our parent company? Cunningham Group has always been the parent company of MyMedicalMalpracticeInsurance.com. We decided to merge the […]

A lot of spa owners may think that their malpractice insurance is the most important type of insurance they need. Certainly, malpractice insurance is very important, but today, let’s talk about the importance of Business Owner’s Insurance. First and foremost, a spa is a business. And, as a business, there are many concerns above and […]

With medical malpractice insurance being one of the most significant expenses that physicians face yearly, one of the first questions physicians ask us is, “How much is this going to cost me?” There are several factors that determine the general cost of malpractice insurance. 1. Your medical specialty. As you’d probably guess, specialties that involve […]

On this blog, I often write about medical errors –different kinds of errors, how physicians should handle errors, how physicians can avoid errors, etc. But, today, I’d like to write about an error I experienced: what happened, how the physician handled it, and my reactions. The error didn’t happen to me, per se, it happened […]

For most physicians, their medical malpractice insurance company doesn’t matter until, well, it does. When a physician faces a claim, it is important to know who is defending him or her and how. The next several months up to years can be spent dealing with one’s insurance company. And, because the inherent nature of being […]

Are you still not convinced that social media should be in the world of medicine? Are you weary of the intersection of health care and Facebook, Twitter, et al? Well, if you don’t want to take it from us that it’s here to stay, would you listen to the Mayo Clinic? They founded the Mayo […]

With it getting tougher and tougher for small medical practices to survive, many practices are tightening their belts financially. And, for many practices, the marketing budget may be one of the first items to get cut. As a result, many offices are trying to do their own marketing. A great marketing tool can be your […]

As we all know, the list of medi-spa services is growing rapidly and many of the newer services being offered are quite sophisticated. As a result, many medi-spas are feeling an obligation to advise clients about how to prepare for these services in order to get the best results. And, often, these suggestions are specifically […]