CONTEXT It has long been a concern that professional liability problems disproportionately affect the delivery of obstetrical services to women living in rural areas. Michigan, a state with a large number of rural communities, is considered to be at risk for a medical liability crisis. PURPOSE This study examined whether higher malpractice burden on obstetric providers was associated with an ...

BACKGROUND Practicing safe behavior regarding patients is an intrinsic part of a physician's ethical and professional standards. Despite this, physicians practice behaviors that run counter to patient safety, including practicing defensive medicine, failing to report incidents, and hesitating to disclose incidents to patients. Physicians' risk of malpractice litigation seems to be a relevant fa...

Health care provided in physician offices represents the most widely used segment of our U.S. system; however, the physician office setting has not yet received nearly the same amount of attention with regard to risk management and patient safety that hospitals and health care systems have.1 A recent study indicated that an estimated 75,000 hospital discharges annually were related to preventab...

examination malpractice is any act carried out by anybody that defies the rules that guides a student whose knowledge or ability is being tested in a particular knowledge or skill with the aim of distorting the student’s true knowledge or ability. this article employs three classical major sociological perspectives in analyzing examination malpractice in nigerian universities. the structural-fu...

OBJECTIVE Pennsylvania, like many states, is in a professional liability crisis characterized by escalating cost and decreasing availability of liability insurance. Medical and surgical specialists have experienced especially large increases in insurance premiums. The objective of this study was to estimate the impact of liability concerns during a professional liability crisis on Pennsylvania ...

Background: We evaluated malpractice payments and adverse actions against pharmacists in the United States. Malpractice is defined as professional negligence by act or omission. Adverse are administered board of registration a health profession provider. The purpose study to analyze trends for during period 1990-2022. Methods: This retrospective that utilizes National Practitioner Data Bank (NP...

Civil liability for professional malpractice has become a major concern of child welfare workers and their agencies. For example, the 1982 Annual Meeting of the American Humane Association focused its agenda on caseworker liability. Also, the National Association of Social Workers has formed a special ad hoc group on caseworker liability, started publishing materials on the subject, and encoura...

Recent debates about redress mechanisms for medical accident victims have been sidetracked by fears of an American-style medical malpractice crisis. What is required is a framework within which the debate can resume. This paper proposes such a framework by focusing on the compensation and deterrence objectives and placing them in the wider context of the social costs of providing medical servic...

Medical work is highly stressful, and physicians increasingly feel loss of control over their clinical decision making. Nonetheless, most physicians are competent and achieve a reasonable level of satisfaction in their personal and professional lives that serves as good preparation for managing the litigation experience (box 1). Physicians are especially challenged, however, when an unexpected ...

Two cases of swallowing of foreign material related to dental implants during dental practice are described. A conservative approach by clinical-radiographic follow-up was performed in both cases; however, one of the patients required colonoscopy under general anesthesia for the removal of the impacted foreign body from the intestinal region. These complications not only have associated economi...