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 047: The Case of Good Medicine, Management, and Documentation
January 11th, 2019 | Season 1 | 15 mins 48 secs
breast cancer, closed claims, cyst, mammogram
In this closed claim case, a woman with a family history of breast cancer was closely monitored for 6 years. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, the patient filed a lawsuit against her general surgeon. She alleged that her cancer should have been diagnosed at least eight months sooner. Learn how, in this case, it proves that even if all the right steps are taken, one is never immune to a lawsuit.
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Episode 046: Avoiding the Crash and Burn
January 4th, 2019 | Season 1 | 20 mins 51 secs
doctor, family, physician burnout, prevention
Dr. Dike Drummond of The Happy MD speaks with Brian Fortenberry about physician burnout. Understanding burnout is not that simple, and Dr. Drummond helps doctors navigate circumstances that can lead to this state. He shares some practical tips on prevention and how to get out of the rut.
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Episode 045: Reviewing RVUs
December 14th, 2018 | Season 1 | 15 mins 58 secs
compensation, physician, reimbursements, relative value unit, rvus
Host Brian Fortenberry and guest Jackie Boswell discuss the ins and outs of Relative Value Units (RVUs), how they work, and how they're calculated. They discuss how important it is for physicians to be educated when it comes to RVUs, especially for compensation purposes. RVUs have a wider reach as well, being used to evaluate specialties, compare physicians, and assess practices across the nation.
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Episode 044: A Hard Pill to Swallow
December 7th, 2018 | Season 1 | 43 mins 28 secs
addition, hydrocodone, opioids, oxycodone, pills, tennessee medical foundation
Along with host Brian Fortenberry, Dr. Stephen Loyd discusses his intimate struggle with opioid addiction. For three years, Dr. Loyd was addicted to painkillers while working as a physician. In one hand, he had everything anyone would want in life. In the other, a handful of pills. He discusses how finding the Tennessee Medical Foundation helped get him out of addiction.
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Episode 043: Power to the Physicians
November 23rd, 2018 | Season 1 | 23 mins 29 secs
capitol hill, doctors day, government education, lobbyists, risk education
With host Brian Fortenberry, SVMIC Vice President of Corporate and Legal Sherie Edwards, and Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Tennessee Medical Association Yarnell Beaty, discuss medical legislation. When physicians get involved on Capitol Hill, it can really make a difference and turn the tide in legislation. They talk about how important it is to contribute to campaigns, get involved at the grassroots level, and establish relationships with elected officials so that physicians have a voice in what laws are being passed.
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Episode 042: The Case of Late Expectations
November 16th, 2018 | Season 1 | 11 mins 54 secs
closed claims, disseminated intravascular coagulation, fetal distress, hellp syndrome, neurologic damage, severe preeclampsia
When pregnant Megan was admitted to the hospital with pain at 32 weeks, the staff failed to recognize fetal distress. This resulted in a C-section performed three hours too late and the infant suffering from severe neurological damage. Brian Fortenberry and attorney Alisa Wamble discuss this closed claim case and how tunnel vision created this sad situation.
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Episode 041: Controlling Controlled Substances
November 9th, 2018 | Season 1 | 18 mins 2 secs
controlled substances, drug enforcement administration, opioids, partial filling
Brian Fortenberry and Dr. Walter Fitzgerald discuss opioids, prescriptions, and all issues that come with it. Dr. Fitzgerald brings his experience as both an attorney and a pharmacist to the discussion, covering everything from new laws regarding prescriptions to safely disposing of extra pills.
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Episode 040: Closing the Gap
November 2nd, 2018 | Season 1 | 20 mins 11 secs
care management, clinical, insurance, malpractice, narus health
Michael Burcham, CEO of Narus Health, talks with Brian Fortenberry about care management. Michael discusses finding the gaps between payer, physician, patient, and hospital, improving those gaps, and giving stakeholders a better experience. He also discusses changing the experience that people have, so that instead of healthcare happening to them, it works for them.
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Episode 039: From Witness to Defendant
October 26th, 2018 | 15 mins 53 secs
closed claim, insurance, malpractice, medical
Dan Himmelberg, SVMIC Assistant Vice President of Claims, and Brian Fortenberry discuss a closed claim in which a patient suffered an aneurysm after having an appendectomy. The patient's surgeon, who had been an expert witness in other cases, was taken to court himself, where he defended his care of the patient during over 8 years of legal proceedings.
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Episode 038: Doing It Right and Getting It Wrong
October 19th, 2018 | 12 mins 1 sec
closed claim, insurance, malpractice, medical
In this closed claim review, a hike up a steep ravine sent William to the hospital with a “weird feeling” in his back. After his symptoms subsided and he was discharged, he passed away of an aortic dissection. Host Brian Fortenberry and SVMIC attorney Judy Reneau discuss the doctor’s defense and how William's symptoms did not lead to the underlying problem.
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Episode 037: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
October 12th, 2018 | 20 mins 28 secs
healthcare, insurance, malpractice, medical
Surgeon Dr. Bruce Ramshaw and Brian Fortenberry discuss problems in healthcare and how new models for healthcare based on systems and data science could be applied. Dr. Ramshaw’s goal is to learn the real structural reasons that the global healthcare system is failing and what can be done to fix it.
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Episode 036: The Best Defense is a Good Offense
October 5th, 2018 | 26 mins 27 secs
insurance, malpractice, medical, testimony
Brian Fortenberry and attorney Wendy Longmire dig into the legal services that SVMIC provides. They discuss depositions, how to properly prepare physicians for testimony, and how mutually beneficial it is for a defendant to really become engaged in their own defense.
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Episode 035: Fear Factor
September 28th, 2018 | 11 mins 39 secs
closed claim, legal, medical, surgery
Host Brian Fortenberry and attorney Jamie Wyatt discuss a closed claim case in which everyone in an operating room, except for the surgeon, was sued due to the complications experienced by the patient post-surgery. They explore this "no talking policy" implemented by the surgeon, and how it created a hostile work environment and a very adverse outcome.
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Episode 034: The Impact of Preconceived Notions
September 21st, 2018 | 11 mins 40 secs
addiction, closed claim, medical
Attorney Tim Behan and Brian Fortenberry discuss how the depersonalization and dissociation from a well-known patient can help provide more effective treatment. In this closed claim review, a 40-year-old woman with drug-seeking behavior is left with neurological damage due to assumptions made about her condition.
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Episode 033: Pain Points
September 14th, 2018 | 23 mins 20 secs
disease, medical, pain, treatment
Brian Fortenberry talks to Dr. Stephanie Vanterpool, Director of Comprehensive Pain Services at University of Tennessee Medical Center and Medical Director of the University Center for Pain Management. They discuss targeted pain treatment options and how pain is a symptom of an underlying condition.
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Episode 032: The Malpractice Essentials
September 7th, 2018 | 28 mins 2 secs
insurance, malpractice, medical
Jim Smith, with 36 years of experience in the medical professional liability insurance business, helps us understand medical insurance and what it means to be a part of a mutual insurance company. Join host Brian Fortenberry as they break down MPL and all that goes with it.