Basics of Being Sued: Malpractice in Emergency Medicine
EMRA*Cast
English - October 17, 2022 22:57 - 27 minutes - 22.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsScience Health & Fitness residents emergencymedicine emra emracast fellows medical medicine students Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Statistics show 75% of emergency physicians are named in malpractice lawsuits during their career - and the only correlation with being sued is the number of years practiced and the number of patients seen over time. Being sued does not mean you are a bad doctor, but rather you are practicing in a high-risk specialty.
Join EMRA*Cast host Ranjita Raghavan, MD, (@DrRanjitaMD) and Camie Sorensen, MD, of St. Agnes Hospital (@AgnesEmr) in a discussion of the medico-legal realities of practicing emergency medicine.