Your Practice Made Perfect
Support, Protection and Advice for Practicing Medical Professionals
We found 3 episodes of Your Practice Made Perfect with the tag “closed claims”.
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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 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 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.