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Your Practice Made Perfect

Support, Protection and Advice for Practicing Medical Professionals

About the show

Conversations, interviews, and advice for today's practicing medical professionals brought to you by SVMIC's J. Baugh and guests. Learn more at SVMIC.com.

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Episodes

  • Episode 088: HR Issues: Compensation Laws and Workplace Harassment

    February 7th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  15 mins 38 secs
    compensation laws, workplace harassment

    Scott Hickman and J. Baugh continue their HR discussion, this time with a focus on employment classification and the impact on pay, comp time, and the Family Medical Leave Act as well as how to address harassment in the workplace.

  • Episode 087: HR Issues: Doing Your Homework

    January 24th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  12 mins 23 secs
    compliance, hr

    Attorneys Scott Hickman and J. Baugh discuss common HR issues that come up in practices, including the importance of enlisting a professional on the front end with compliance questions, and essential elements to include in a personnel manual.

  • Episode 086: Destroying Physician Burnout

    January 10th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  21 mins 17 secs
    pediatrics, physician burnout

    Dr. Betty-Ann Svendsen shares her own personal experience surrounding physician burnout with J. Baugh, including its very real impact on her personal life. Svendsen shares how she was able to destroy burnout by making herself a priority and putting more focus on work-life balance.

  • 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.

  • Episode 084: Quality Testing

    December 6th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 26 secs
    in-office, laboratory, testing

    Anne Pontius joins J. Baugh to discuss operating an in-office laboratory. Anne weighs out the pros and cons of doing your own testing in-house versus using a commercial laboratory.

  • Episode 083: Crucial Communication

    November 29th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  11 mins 58 secs
    pain medication, sleep apnea

    SVMIC Attorneys J. Baugh and Katy Smith take a look at another closed claim in which a lack of communication led to a patient diagnosed with severe sleep apnea being given an excessive dosage of pain medication.

  • 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.

  • Episode 081: That’s Not My Job

    November 1st, 2019  |  Season 1  |  13 mins 55 secs
    intubation, patient, physician

    J. Baugh sits down with Katy Smith to take a close look at a closed claim of an ER Physician who was asked to re-intubate a patient. The physician, trying to follow protocol, refused and the patient died shortly after.

  • 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.

  • Episode 079: Missteps in Medical Records

    October 11th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  14 mins 15 secs
    closed claim, medical, oversight

    Katy Smith joins J. Baugh to discuss three separate cases where critical oversights in patients’ medical records led to severe consequences, both physical and legal.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.