It’s always a good idea to take a look over your malpractice insurance policy every year to make sure you are getting the best coverage for your dollar. This is particularly true for a state such as Missouri, which has gone through quite a few revisions of its medical malpractice damage caps in the past […]
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The medical industry is currently experiencing a reorganization period as hospitals and other large medical groups are rapidly acquiring private practices at an unprecedented pace. According to an article in the New York Times, the nationwide number of doctors practicing independently dropped to 39 percent in 2012, down from 57 percent in 2000. That number appears
It seems that in the last several years, telemedicine has become the new buzzword in the medical industry. According to a study by the American Telemedicine Association, telemedicine usage has surged by more than 50% in 2015 as compared to 2013. Perhaps no other technological innovation has as great a potential to shift the dynamic of
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There’s an age-old adage that says variety is the spice of life. And like most age-old adages, there’s some truth there. It seems fair to say that most of us like to switch things up once in awhile for the sake of freshness and spontaneity. Most of us, however, have a difficult time inserting variety
Moonlighting: a Means to Boost Income, Experience, and Variety in a Doctor’s Life Read More »
I meet regularly with Jason Leander, our vice president of sales and marketing, in order to discuss and outline content updates for our website. Next week Jason is writing a short piece outlining a few ways in which doctors might supplement their income outside of their personal practice. Many of these jobs are fairly straightforward
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We’ve all heard the horror stories — a surgeon accidentally amputates the wrong leg, or open-heart surgery is performed on the wrong patient — and while these are the ones that grab the headlines, medical errors are a far more common occurrence than many believe. A controversial new study published in BMJ by researchers at Johns Hopkins
Controversial New Study Finds Medical Error as Third Leading Cause of Death Read More »
We have an extremely diverse group of clients here at PracticeProtection, and today we’d like to introduce one of them: Dr. Daniel Ivankovich. I recently attended a TedX talk at Northwestern University at which Dr. Ivankovich spoke. It would have been hard to miss him. Upon his introduction, Dr. Ivankovich entered the stage in motorcyle
Fixing Chicago: One Joint at a Time, an interview with Dr. Daniel Ivankovich Read More »
Over the weekend, we read a notable study conducted by the United Health Foundation that offers surprising insight into the staggering numbers of Americans suffering from “Multiple Unhealthy Behaviors” (called MUBs). They sorted these MUBs into five distinct categories: Currently a smoker Less than 7 hours of sleep per night Body mass index > 30 Low physical
Who Suffers from Multiple Unhealthy Behaviors (MUBs) and Why is it Important? Read More »
One percent of all physicians are responsible for nearly one third of all paid medical malpractice claims according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine. This is a significant finding. For additional perspective on this study, we turned to an article written by Tara Haelle on Medscape. She suggests that the common risk
Most Med Mal Paid Claims Attributed to Few Physicians Read More »
Part 2: Mitigating the stress of a lawsuit: process, prepare, parley, and prioritize. The first part of this three part article looked at the statistical occurrences of medical malpractice lawsuits over the course of a physician’s career, and the fundamental contradiction between the usual results of a malpractice lawsuit (~90% dismissed or settled) versus the
The Emotional Cost of Medical Malpractice Claims Against Doctors, Part 2 Read More »
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