Team debriefs: Participate and minimize your medical-legal risksDebriefs can improve patient care, but need to be properly structured and focused on learning to reduce medical-legal risks for participants. Colleagues are exchanging inappropriate photos of patients. What should I do? Solve a problem: 'Colleagues are exchanging inappropriate photos of patients. What should I do?' We could use your help solving a problem your colleagues occasionally face. And you could earn an honorarium of $50 if your solution is chosen to run in the next print issue of the Medical Post in the feature we call “Solve My Problem.” What happened to the physical exam? Determining the extent of specialist versus generalist expertise in court Legal column: When the jury gets it wrong Sometimes complex cases can create an illusory link between negligence and injury. The time limit for malpractice lawsuits The dangers of hindsight Even if all risks were not stated, the question still remains: would a reasonable person have had the surgery? Specialists can’t testify against family physician, judge says Misadventure is not negligence Judge rejects plaintiff’s claims in colostomy reversal gone wrong First Previous 6 7 8 9 10 Next Last