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Unusual Incident Reporting in Tennessee

Last year I wrote about the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance’s 2008 Medical Malpractice Claims Report.  The report revealed data from medical malpractice cases settled and tried in Tennessee in calendar year 2007. The numbers: Total judgments for plaintiffs   2007             7 Total settlements                      2007         492 Cases Dismissed   With No Payment 2007        2238 …

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“Venous Thromboembolism–Risk Factors, Prevention, and Diagnosis”

David B. Troxel, MD of the Doctors Company has written a great article about VTE inThe Doctor’s Advocate..  The article reviews the risk factors for VTE, the prevention of VTE, and the diagnosis of DVT and includes a reference to the American College of Chest Physicians’ guidelines. Read here –…

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SVMIC Supplies Us With Surgical Checklist

SVMIC, the medical malpractice insurer owned by doctors for doctors, has published information about a seminar it offered to its insureds addressing the issue of surgical checklists. This is how SVMIC describes the seminar it called "“Applied Aviation Safety Practices for Surgeons and Anesthesiologists:” The basic premise of these seminars was…

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Medical Record-Keeping

The Doctors Company, a medical malpractice insurer, has published this article about keeping medical records.  An excerpt: The following entries should appear in the office or hospital records of each patient: Results of a patient’s physical examination, specifically noting the absence of abnormality. Patient history, a list of all medications…

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Malpractice Concerning Pap Smears

One medical malpractice insurer, The Doctors Company, has an interesting article on medical malpractice claims concerning pap smears. Here is a excerpt from the article that discusses the scope of the problem: To put the potential magnitude of this problem in perspective, a College of American Pathologists (CAP) study of…

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Tennessee Ranks #40 in Doctor Discipline

Public Citizen ranks Tennessee 40th in its 2008  ranking of serious doctor disciplinary actions taken by state medical licensing boards. The Tennessee board took a total of 40 serious disciplinary actions against the 18,137 doctors in Tennessee, or a total of 2.44 actions per 1000 physicians.  The total leading states were Alaska…

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Expert Testimony Allowed on the Issue of Recklessness in Medical Negligence Case

The Idaho Supreme Court has permitted an expert to opine that two defendants in a medical negligence case engaged in not just negligent but reckless conduct. In Jones v. Crawford, 2009 Opinion 53 (Idaho S. Ct. April 8, 2009), a defendant appealed from an adverse jury verdict in a wrongful…

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