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.

With the Patient Protection & Affordable Act continuing its squeeze of the American healthcare system into one that offers a greater number of citizens access to quality, affordable medical care while reigning in the overall costs of care to the economy, the Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA) focused its 2013 Annual Medical Liability Conference on […]

A few doctors around the country are taking a less traditional route and moving to a cash only based practice. They say that this helps cut out the middle man and allows more time with the patient. An interesting concept for sure, but can it survive in an ACA world? Another question to ask is […]

After the lunch break for the first day of the PIAA Medical Liability Conference, I had the opportunity to attend two more educational sessions. Following are some of the notes I compiled: • Quality Measures and Data Collection: What is the Real Impact on Patient Safety * The quality benchmarks required by the Centers for […]