Archives for year 2007
Communicating With LEP Patients
November, 2007
Physician-patient communication can be challenging, even under the best circumstances. When the physician and patient do not speak the same language, however, ensuring accurate communication is all the more difficult. Poor communication can lead to extra costly tests, or worse, medical error.
Protecting Your Personal Assets
August, 2007
Maintaining adequate and appropriate personal insurance is a significant key that physicians often overlook when seeking to protect personal assets. For any damage award that exceeds the limits on a homeowners or automobile policy, the individual is personally liable. Liability insurance, whether in the form of homeowners or automobile insurance, is designed to pay for expenses such as medical bills, lost wages, property damage and other expenses due to the negligence of the person at fault. After adding up all the expenses arising out of an automobile accident or other accident, insurance policy limits simply may not be enough.
Top Ten Reasons Physicians Are Sued
July, 2007
Physicians are sued for many reasons. Some of the reasons are legitimate and others are not. Obviously, if a physician is negligent and it causes damage to the patient, the physician is vulnerable to being sued for malpractice. However, physicians are many times sued for reasons not based on the classic negligence principles. A plaintiff may disguise his lawsuit in negligence but the motivating factor may not be thoughts of negligence at all. A physician often has control, and is able prevent the lawsuits based on these other factors.
