Brian Fortenberry
Co-Host of Your Practice Made Perfect
Brian Fortenberry is Assistant Vice President of Underwriting at SVMIC where he assists in evaluating risk for the company and assisting policyholders with underwriting issues. He has been involved with medical professional liability insurance since 2007. Prior to his work at SVMIC, Brian worked in the clinical side of medicine and in broadcast media.
Brian Fortenberry has hosted 79 Episodes.
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Episode 085: Not Everything Is As It Seems
December 13th, 2019 | Season 1 | 18 mins 4 secs
cardiac arrest, closed claim, mystery, sprained ankle
Brian Fortenberry sits down with Katy Smith and J. Baugh to dive into another closed claim. A 23-year-old male came in complaining of mysterious pain and was treated for a sprained ankle. Months later he suffers a sudden cardiac arrest.
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Episode 082: Courtroom Combat
November 8th, 2019 | Season 1 | 11 mins 32 secs
courtroom, law, lawyer
Brian Fortenberry chats with lawyer Ryan Wood on how things typically play out in the courtroom and some of the questionable tactics used by both sides to argue their case.
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Episode 080: When Healthcare Goes Virtual
October 25th, 2019 | Season 1 | 18 mins 6 secs
practice, telehealth, telemedicine
Dr. Richard Moses sits down with host Brian Fortenberry to discuss telemedicine and telehealth, the legalities of practicing across state lines, and how to go about doing so if you wish to work in multiple states.
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Episode 078: Learning to Run
October 4th, 2019 | Season 1 | 15 mins 16 secs
decision making, office governance
Steve Dickens joins Brian Fortenberry to discuss the importance of a strong, active leadership model and how proper governance minimizes inefficiencies and maximizes strategic decision making.
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Episode 077: In Due Time
September 27th, 2019 | Season 1 | 18 mins 43 secs
attorney, compartment syndrome, foot drop, malpractice
Attorneys J. Baugh and Katy Smith join Brian for another review of a closed claim that took ten years to go to trial. A 55-year-old gentleman jumped off his truck injuring his knee and ankle, resulting in pain and foot drop.
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Episode 076: Back to the Heart of the Matter
September 13th, 2019 | Season 1 | 17 mins 50 secs
attorney, closed claims, ekg, malpractice
Brian Fortenberry sits down with J. Baugh and Katy Smith again to review a case of a 73-year-old with increasing back pain and a history of heart issues who wasn’t notified in time to catch a fatal heart attack.
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Episode 075: Out of Breath and Time
September 6th, 2019 | Season 1 | 18 mins 15 secs
case review, medmalreviewer, pulmonary artery thromboembolism
Editor and founder of MedMalReviewer.com, Eric Funk, returns with Brian Fortenberry to review a malpractice case of a 31-year-old male who couldn’t receive a CT scan for physical reasons and got a misdiagnosis of bronchitis that resulted in a tragic outcome.
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Episode 074: A Site for Sore Eyes
August 30th, 2019 | Season 1 | 22 mins 19 secs
medmalreviewer.com
Host Brian Fortenberry chats with Emergency Medicine doctor, Erik Funk. Erik is the editor of the website MedMalReviewer.com, where physicians can get access to actual medical malpractice cases from legal databases. They discuss the multitude of resources that can be found on Dr. Funk’s site and when those resources can come in handy.
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Episode 073: Litigation 101
August 23rd, 2019 | Season 1 | 27 mins 50 secs
lawyers, litigation
Katy Smith and J. Baugh walk through the basics of Malpractice suit litigation. What to prepare for, the statistics around some of these suits, and how a good partner can help a physician be prepared.
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Episode 072: Data Driven Decisions
August 9th, 2019 | Season 1 | 20 mins 18 secs
malpractice insurance
This week on Your Practice Made Perfect, Brian discusses stats and what role they play in malpractice insurance coverage and medical practices, with Kathy Cartwright and Divya Parikh - vice president of Research and Education at the Medical Professional Liability Association.
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Episode 071: The Case of the Right Knee
August 2nd, 2019 | Season 1 | 17 mins 13 secs
claims, malpractice
J. Baugh and Katy Smith, claims attorneys at SVMIC, sit down with Brian Fortenberry to review a malpractice case where a patient had the wrong knee operated on to repair a meniscus tear. They discuss the immediate discovery and the events that came as a result of a wrong-site surgery.
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Episode 070: Failure to Follow Up
July 26th, 2019 | Season 1 | 11 mins 6 secs
closed claim, not following up, primary care, x-ray
Attorney John Ryman takes Brian Fortenberry through a closed claim case of a 72-year-old male who died two years after a primary care visit. When it was discovered that the doctor failed to follow up on a recommended CT evaluation, the patient’s estate filed a lawsuit.
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Episode 069: Checks and Balances and Embezzlement
July 19th, 2019 | Season 1 | 16 mins 6 secs
embezzlement, practice management, risk management
On this episode, Laura Watkins observes the frightening topic of embezzlement and how it might be more common than you think. Watkins walks you through what embezzlement looks like and steps to take to ensure that your practice doesn’t fall victim.
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Episode 068: Burning at Both Ends of the Candle
July 12th, 2019 | Season 1 | 22 mins 16 secs
burnout, manage workload, physician
Dr. Sasha Shillcutt has a candid conversation with Brian about her accomplished career in medicine and how she manages the workload. Through building support systems and research, she has been able to show other women physicians how to avoid the all-too-common burnout.
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Episode 067: Putting Disaster Plans In Place
June 28th, 2019 | Season 1 | 16 mins 55 secs
disaster preparedness, goals, planning
Rana McSpadden and Brian Fortenberry talk about the various ways to prepare your practice for everything from tornadoes to cyber attacks. McSpadden explains the use of reverse planning to figure out your goals and the even bigger disaster of putting off the planning process.
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Episode 066: Microperforations, Macro Problems
June 21st, 2019 | Season 1 | 18 mins 8 secs
closed claim, diverticulitis, er, patient
Katy Smith and J. Baugh join Brian Fortenberry this week to look at a closed claim case involving a 42-year-old John Doe with a 4+ year history of acute diverticulitis. The two discuss the patient’s trip to the ER and how a CT misreading led to the patient’s untimely death.