Abstract
Remember that patient you saw last night? A statement that strikes fear in the heart of the emergency physician, PA and NP; What happened? Am I going to be sued? What will the legal process look like? How will I survive it?
Bouncebacks! Medical and Legal, 13th Anniversary Ed. by Michael Weinstock, MD, Kevin Klauer, DO, T. Marc Calvert, JD and leading national emergency medicine physicians and attorneys who report on 16 emergency cases involving medical malpractice claims with actual documentation, as well as deposition and trial testimony. The chapters focus on how to spot the well-appearing patient who will soon be dead… then reveal how the legal process unfolds when an adverse outcome occurs.
Bouncebacks! Medical and Legal gives you exclusive access to the hidden world of medical malpractice with specific risk management/patient safety tips in each case, report of counsel, expert opinions, depositions, trial testimony, as well as 5 chapters focused on the legal process; how it works… and how to get through it. No other resource provides this degree of insight into the dark and scary world of medical malpractice by putting the reader in the footsteps of physicians during actual litigation… with the goal of improving patient safety and preventing lawsuits in the first place.
As one leading national emergency medicine physician said in a testimonial: “Read it or BE it! The Bouncebacks teaching method is a cornerstone of how Emergency Medicine should be taught!”
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Table of Contents
- Foreword xvi7
- About the Authors xix10
- Table of Contents xxii13
- Introduction 115
- Help! I Am Being Sued 1024
- Avoiding Catastrophic Failures 1630
- Litigation Stress: A Personal Story 2135
- How Does the Lawsuit End? 2539
- Case 1 3145
- Case 2 5771
- Case 3 89103
- Case 4 115129
- Case 5 139153
- Case 6 167181
- Case 7 197211
- Case 8 225239
- Case 9 253267
- Case 10 271285
- Case 11 301315
- Case 12 329343
- Case 13 357371
- Case 14 377391
- Case 15 399413
- Bonus Chapter 429443
- Case 16 433447
- Epilogue: The End of Your Shift 465479