To deliver excellent healthcare and to control the risks of doing so, doctors and other healthcare providers need to develop risk management plans.In other words, what best practices can be implemented to protect patients from harm and to avoid costly medical malpractice insurance claims and legal action against providers?In this blog, we will investigate the
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14 Terms Everyone Looking for Medical Malpractice Insurance Should Know
Medical Professional Liability Insurance (MPLI) – Starting with the fundamentals, this is the technical name for what is commonly referred to as Medical Malpractice Insurance. It is liability coverage particularly tailored to the needs of medical professionals. Claims Made Policy – A type of MPLI policy in which a claim is covered only if the
READ MORENeurosurgeons and Medical Malpractice Risk
Because of the risks involved, neurosurgeons face higher medical malpractice costs than many other physicians. The field of neurosurgery includes both spinal and cranial disorders related to vascular disease, pain, brain tumors, epilepsy, movement and behavioral disorders and trauma. Neurosurgeons diagnose and assess these conditions, which most often require surgical repair. The goal of neurosurgery
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As I’m typing this, TEDMED 2014 is wrapping up. Most of us are familiar with TED, if nothing else via the occasional TED Talk that goes viral on social media. But building on TED’s tagline, “ideas worth spreading,” TEDMED describes itself as “a global community dedicated to unlocking imagination in service of health and medicine. Our goal is
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