We all know that there is a shortage of physicians in this country. And, while you’d think that growing medical school classes would be a good thing, it’s turning out to be a problem. Why, you may ask? The problem is that residency programs aren’t growing as quickly. And, as a result, last year, there […]

On the heels of the painfully sad essay, “What I’ve Learned from Saving Physicians from Suicide,” I just read David Bornstein’s essay, “Medicine’s Search for Meaning” and I am heartbroken. I am heartbroken for physicians and health care providers and I am heartbroken for patients. As we all know, most physicians would not encourage their […]

Dr. Smith happily joined a new practice on Jan 1. On Feb 1, he received a letter from his previous medical malpractice insurance carrier saying that his previous employer would not purchase his tail coverage for that practice. He is now facing a gap in coverage and is responsible for finding his own tail coverage. […]

We get calls every day from physicians joining practices who are looking for medical malpractice insurance coverage. And, while nobody wants to take a job with one foot out the door, the reality of medicine today is that health care providers tend to change jobs often. (But high turnover also means that you can negotiate […]

We all know that that once it’s out there, it’s out there forever. Of course, we’re talking about the internet and social media. Just as businesses have been looking into their prospective employees’ backgrounds by searching the internet for a long time now, medicine is starting to do the same. No longer are employers just […]

The Sunday New York Times just had an interesting Sunday Dialog, entitled, “Handling Medical Errors.” The original letter was written by a former chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center relaying an event at his hospital where a surgeon operated on the wrong ankle of a patient. While this medical error was an egregious […]

With the recent government shut-down, how close did we come to creating a hard market for medical malpractice insurance? Before we dive into the answer, let’s take a minute and provide some basic background information. First, let’s define what we mean when we say “hard” and “soft” markets. While these are medical malpractice insider terms, […]

Many of you who follow this blog know that I have written extensively about my own, personal experiences with our medically complex son. (Some of the posts, for background pertaining to this post are HERE, HERE, and HERE.) That said, it was so wonderful to read the NY Times article entitled, “Haunted by a Child’s […]