by PPN | Aug 28, 2024 | latest_news, National, News
Personal Perspective: Naiveté drives the devastation of a malpractice suit. Key points Most healthcare practitioners are startlingly naive about malpractice litigation. Healthcare practitioners benefit from education on the nature and mechanisms of malpractice...
by PPN | Jul 30, 2024 | COVID, Indiana, National, New Jersey, Newsletter
COVID-era pandemic protection law put to the test in Indiana An Indiana law that offered protections for health care responders and facilities confronting the COVID-19 pandemic was tested earlier this month, as a challenge was mounted following an adverse outcome that...
by PPN | Jul 30, 2024 | latest_news, National, News
Background: High reliability in health care requires a balance between intentionally designed systems and individual professional accountability. One element of accountability includes a process for addressing clinicians whose practices are associated with a...
by PPN | Jul 30, 2024 | latest_news, National, New Jersey, News
New Jersey hospitals and health care providers will have a harder time eliminating malpractice suits following a state high court ruling allowing patients to bring complaints without a expert reviewing medical records. A third-party affidavit of merit needed to...
by PPN | Jul 30, 2024 | COVID, Indiana, latest_news, National, News
In April 2020—six weeks after Indiana declared a public health emergency because of COVID-19—an ambulance brought a patient to the hospital with nausea, vomiting and a headache. En route, emergency medical technicians performed a stroke assessment and did not...
