Your Practice Made Perfect
Support, Protection and Advice for Practicing Medical Professionals
We found 4 episodes of Your Practice Made Perfect with the tag “complications”.
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Episode 031: The Case of the Black Box Warning
August 31st, 2018 | 12 mins 15 secs
closed claim, complications, malpractice, medical
In this closed claim case, attorney Stephanie Deupree and host Brian Fortenberry examine a very tragic outcome that began with a man's fall from a six-foot ladder while trying to complete a home improvement project. A medication unfamiliar to the physicians prescribed for pain relief resulted in the man's death.
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Episode 028: Don’t Leave the Rest Unwritten
August 10th, 2018 | 20 mins 15 secs
closed claim, complications, malpractice, medical
In this closed claim review, Ken Rucker, Vice President of Claims for SVMIC, and host Brian Fortenberry discuss how easy it is to let the daily workload negatively impact the quality of medical documentation. Details forgotten can be hard to defend, especially when Dr. Andrew’s early discharge led to a patient's death one week later.
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Episode 026: Care Off the Record
July 27th, 2018 | 9 mins 36 secs
closed claim, complications, medical
Brian Fortenberry details and discusses a closed claim case with Claims Attorney, Zynthia Howse. Together, they review the fallout from a female infant’s routine “Well Baby” visit after the care providers failed to administer a vaccination and did not accurately document it in the medical charts.
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Episode 021: The Case of Cascading Conditions
June 22nd, 2018 | 17 mins 32 secs
closed claim, complications, medical
This week, we review a closed case against a doctor who failed to give a timely diagnosis and treat Mary’s retroperitoneal hemorrhage following a cardiac catheterization. This led to a series of unfortunate medical complications. Senior Claims Attorney Tim Rector talks about this complicated case with Brian Fortenberry.