Your Practice Made Perfect
Support, Protection and Advice for Practicing Medical Professionals
We found 10 episodes of Your Practice Made Perfect with the tag “closed claim”.
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Episode 110: A Fact of Life
February 19th, 2021 | Season 1 | 9 mins 43 secs
closed claim
In this Closed Claim, Claims Attorneys Katy Smith and J. Baugh review the unfortunate tragedy of a woman’s stillborn child and the lengthy process it took to conclude the case.
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Episode 108: Adding Assumptions to the Wound
December 4th, 2020 | Season 1 | 11 mins 57 secs
abdominal surgery, closed claim
In this Closed Claim review, Claims Attorneys Katy Smith and J. Baugh discuss the dangers of assumptions when it comes to practicing medicine and diagnosing a case with a woman’s abdominal surgery.
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Episode 102: Hazardous Office Protocols
September 11th, 2020 | Season 1 | 8 mins 40 secs
closed claim, emr, medical, office protocol, procedure
Katy Smith joins J. Baugh once again to discuss a closed claim involving poor office systems and protocols. They discuss the importance of implementing organized and effective office systems, and also why tracking office procedures could save you both time and trouble.
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Episode 098: Left To Their Own Devices
July 10th, 2020 | Season 1 | 14 mins 19 secs
closed claim, medical devices
In this closed claim review, Katy Smith and J. Baugh of SVMIC dive into a case with multiple defendants regarding the proper use of medical devices in the operating room.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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Episode 059: A Recipe for Disaster
April 26th, 2019 | Season 1 | 10 mins 16 secs
cardiac, closed claim, cookbook medicine, treatment
Katy Smith joins J. Baugh for another closed claim case. The two discuss a practice known in the industry as “cookbook medicine” and how this practice led to a patient’s death and a lawsuit.
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Episode 052: The Dangers of Miscommunication
March 1st, 2019 | Season 1 | 16 mins 1 sec
chest pain, closed claim, communication, malpractice
Brian Fortenberry explores the closed claim case of a patient who, through miscommunication on various levels, died from a dosage error. Licensed CPA and attorney J. Baugh joins to discuss where the fault may lie and how to avoid issues like this in the future.