Understanding how medical malpractice occurs and is resolved is important to improving patient safety and preserving the viability of a physician's career in academic medicine. Every physician is likely to be sued by a patient, and how the physician responds can change his or her professional life. However, the principles of medical malpractice are rarely taught or addressed during residency tr...

Medical malpractice claims are increasing at a rate of about ten percent per year.' Seven chairmen of neurosurgery departments in leading New York hospitals have a combined total of twenty-five malpractice suits filed against them, seeking an aggregate total of $6.3 million. ' In 1960, total malpractice premiums in the United States were $60 million; by 1975, the total will be about $1 billion....

Medical malpractice is a complex and delicate issue, given the fact that errors or negligence in provision of healthcare services can have serious consequences for patients. From patients’ perspective, medical insurance provides level safety trust system. If they incur damages due to negligence, option seeking compensation through policies. This helps them obtain financial additional costs, fur...

INTRODUCTION Medical malpractice results from inadequate professional knowledge, incompliance to the present state of medical knowledge or negligence and inattention. The aim of the paper was the analysis of diagnostic and therapeutic malpractice based on casework material in the field of neurosurgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS Medical malpractice cases were assessed according to the number and ty...

This essay is a discussion of the role of the forensic psychiatrist in malpractice cases as an expert witness establishing the standards of care for the psychiatric profession. The occasion for these comments, which hopefully will lead to constructive dialogue and response, is the much discussed malpractice case of Weizdell Williamson v. Doctor Myron Liptzin (Cal., Orange County Sup. Ct., Dkt. ...

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SOME “RED FLAGS” are obvious in suggesting a problematic client. Others are the product of data about legal malpractice claims, in terms of their frequency and severity. Lawyers who have been sued for legal malpractice often report that they had a “bad feeling” about the client or the case from the start, but they felt they needed the work, they couldn’t say “no,” or they felt compelled to help...

The purpose of this technical report is to provide pediatricians with an understanding of past crises within the professional liability insurance industry, the difficulties of the tort system, and alternative strategies for resolving malpractice disputes that have been applied to medical malpractice actions. Through this report, pediatricians will gain a technical understanding of common altern...

epithets, attorneys remain shadows in the background throughout the text. He ignores, however, the legal profession's view of the malpractice phenomena as found in contemporary legal journals. Several problems hinder De Ville's analysis. He never explains how his causal factors interacted and contributed to the rise of malpractice suits, nor does he weigh their relative importance. While he sho...