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Cosmos Soup

@cosmossoup.bsky.social

5 hours ago

Capital punishment for #malpractice would solve a lot of problems.

Android

@android.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

2 days ago

Physician legal protection: Surviving academic medical center blame __Share __Tweet __Share On October 20, 2015, I did something unremarkable: I turned on the GPS app on my Android phone before driving to work. I had no idea that routine act would one day save my career and expose a pattern of institutional behavior that every academic physician needs to understand. I was an assistant professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at a major academic medical center. Two days after a high-risk patient died following a procedure in our clinic, a procedure I had no involvement in, I was called into risk management and told my name was on the patient’s record. The implication was clear: I was being positioned as the responsible surgeon. What followed was a masterclass in how academic institutions protect themselves at the expense of the people who work for them. **Risk management is not your friend** The first thing risk management did was offer to represent me. A senior colleague, a former residency chairman turned dean, pulled me aside and said something I have never forgotten: “Risk management exists to protect administration, not the foot soldiers.” He was right. When institutional liability is at stake, risk management’s primary loyalty is to the institution, not to you, your license, or your reputation. Accepting their representation is, at minimum, a serious conflict of interest. At worst, it is the mechanism by which you become the scapegoat. My first and most important act of self-preservation was retaining independent legal counsel at my own expense, before doing anything else. Every academic physician should consider prepaid supplemental legal coverage independent of institutional malpractice insurance. Not because you expect to need it. Because by the time you know you need it, it may be too late. **Your department chair and dean will sacrifice you** I do not say this with bitterness. I say it as documented fact. When my department chair came under scrutiny from the state dental board for her role in the patient’s death, the institutional response was to deflect responsibility downward. When my dean became aware of the board’s preliminary findings, his response was not to protect a member of his faculty, it was to insulate the institution. Institutions need scapegoats. When something goes wrong, a patient death, a regulatory inquiry, a media inquiry, the instinct of institutional leadership is to find the most defensible narrative, not the most truthful one. Individual physicians are expendable. The institution’s reputation is not. Understanding this is not cynicism. It is survival. **July 1st is the most dangerous day in academic medicine** Every physician knows what July first means: new residents, disrupted chains of command, supervision gaps, and the inevitable institutional growing pains of a training year beginning. Patients entering academic medical centers during this transition period face elevated risk, not from malice, but from the structural reality of how training programs operate. The patient in my case was high-risk by any clinical measure. He had end-stage liver disease. His coagulation status alone should have triggered a more conservative treatment plan and rigorous supervision. Those safeguards failed, not because of my actions, but because of failures in the supervisory chain above me. Failures that were later formally documented by state regulators. For patients: Ask who is supervising your procedure. Ask whether your attending will be physically present. Ask whether the physician of record has personally reviewed your chart. These are not rude questions. They are the questions that can save your life. **Become a digital warrior** Here is where my story takes an unexpected turn, and where I believe it has the most practical value for physicians today. When I was accused of being present and responsible for a procedure I had nothing to do with, I had one thing working in my favor: My Android phone’s GPS timeline had been running all morning. The data showed, with mathematical precision, exactly where I was, when I arrived at the hospital, and that the procedure was already near completion when I got there. It was not a smoking gun, it was a smoking timestamp. Irrefutable, independently verifiable, impossible to spin. The institution’s own dean, when confronted with this GPS evidence during a legal deposition, dismissed it as “a lot of bullshit.” He was later asked to explain that characterization at considerable legal expense to the institution. Digital evidence has changed the power equation between individual physicians and institutional narratives. GPS coordinates cannot be spun, reinterpreted, or quietly altered. Email metadata does not lie. The smartphone you carry is, in the right circumstances, the most powerful legal instrument you own. Practical steps every academic physician should take today: * Keep location services enabled on your smartphone at all times. You do not know in advance which day will require documentation of your whereabouts. * BCC critical communications to a personal, non-institutional email account. Institutional email access can be revoked overnight. Your own account cannot. * Use your smartphone camera to document EHR records when necessary. Institutional records can be modified. Photographs of records carry timestamps and metadata. * Maintain your own contemporaneous documentation of critical communications, decisions, and events, separate from institutional systems entirely. **The outcome** The state dental board ultimately found in my favor. The physician whose supervisory failures caused the patient’s death accepted formal disciplinary action for “Unacceptable Patient Care”, the most serious professional misconduct charge available under state dental law. She had fought the charges for over two years before capitulating rather than face a public administrative hearing. The dramatic irony, which I have had years to appreciate, is that the institution that trained me to become a health care informaticist, to use data, found itself on the wrong end of the very data practices it had taught me. I had turned what they taught me against them. Though I would say more accurately: I was simply lucky I had my GPS turned on. **The book that could not be published until now** I have spent nearly a decade documenting this story in full, the patient who died needlessly, the institutional response, the legal proceedings, and everything that GPS data, deposition transcripts, and regulatory findings revealed about how a prestigious academic medical center chose reputation over accountability. The result is a book that no traditional publisher would touch, not because the facts are in dispute, but because powerful institutions have powerful lawyers, and publishers have boards. The fear of “lawfare” from an institution with deep pockets is itself a form of censorship. But GPS coordinates do not require a publisher’s approval. And neither does the truth. _David M.H. 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Physician legal protection: Surviving academic medical center blame On October 20, 2015, I did something unremarkable: I turned on the GPS app on my Android phone before driving to work. I had no i...

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP

@soumya-goblue.medsky.social

4 days ago

oh yeah, I'm sure this presents no #medical #malpractice #liability problems AT ALL.

@joindis.bsky.social

1 week ago

Taking a little time now to understand them puts you in a much better position later:
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#NewDentists #DentalGraduation #Malpractice
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Randy Little

@randylittle.bsky.social

1 week ago

#TBT Artist: #Redman Album: #Malpractice (2001) Singles: #LetsGetDirty (I Can’t Get in da Club) #SmashSumthin Label: #DefJam #Newark #HipHop #ThrowBackThursday #ThrowBackThursdayAlbum #ThrowBackRap #RapNerd #HipHopHead #HipHopSky

Mark Ungrin

@mark-ungrin.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

This - for medical professionals to be trusted, they must be trustworthy. If @bccfp.bsky.social and @doctorsofbc.bsky.social can't maintain standards of conduct, that trust will be lost, and @cmpa-acpm.ca will end up paying for it.

This is #malpractice, whether deliberate or just out of date.

Mark Ungrin

@mark-ungrin.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

The quote-reposts on this particular instance of #malpractice are bang on.

Please spread this all over #medsky - misleading patients like this is unacceptable. No different from RFK's anti-vax disinformation.

Professional associations must take a really hard line on this.

Mark Ungrin

@mark-ungrin.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

This is exactly what I mean by #misinformation "inside the house" being corrosive to public trust.

It's clear #malpractice, and a serious breach of medical ethics - some combination of unacceptable ignorance and/or intentional misrepresentation, endangering patient health.

#medsky #scisky

Robert Carter | Cracked Hat Illustration

@crackedhat.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

The Nightmare Nurse - For Reader’s Digest Canada (2022)

Brigitte Cleroux was repeatedly fined, fired and jailed for treating patients across Canada without a licence for two decades.

#NightmareNurse #BrigitteCleroux #Fraud #Malpractice #ConArtist #ReadersDigest #EditorialIllustration #Illustration

NoReruns.net

@noreruns.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

New On TV Tonight – Friday Mar 13, 2026 #Anniversary #Bodycam #NotWithoutHope #LetsMurderLikeIts1999 #LaOficina #WomanToWoman #ItsDorothy #ThatNight #FatalSeduction #DynastyTheMurdochs #BarbaraBecomingShirinDavid #Malpractice #Mira… noreruns.net/2026/03/13/n...

Lucky Heather

@lucky1342.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

2025 Shkreli Awards for the Worst in American Healthcare YouTube video by Healthcare Triage

2025 was a bad year for Healthcare.
Thanks to the Shkreli Awards for calling it out.
Close to home, the horrible treatment of Adriana Smith by Emory Hospital - keeping her alive while braindead against family wishes just because she was pregnant.
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#healthcare #malpractice

Julien Schu

@julienschu.bsky.social

1 month ago

Malpractice YouTube video by Faith No More - Topic

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Artiste : Faith No More (US)
Album : Angel Dust (1992 - 13 titres)
Titre 7 : Malpractice
#faitnomore #malpractice

@joindis.bsky.social

1 month ago

See how the Tribute® Plan fits into your long-term plan: www.dentistinsuranceservices.com/professional-liability

#TributePlan #DentalRetirement #Malpractice
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Stephen Hayes

@stephenaytch.bsky.social

1 month ago

How Education DESTROYED Your Brain (Richard Feynman's Warning) YouTube video by Feynman Archives

#Malpractice
in #Education, in this case.

#Brainwashing

#RoteMemorization instead of independent #Thinking, engagement with #reality, #Creativity, #Play and #Fun.

The main reason why this system must be destroyed:

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@greeneeyedbrahma.bsky.social

1 month ago

Last-minute tweak to bill could double Virginia's medical malpractice payment caps for plaintiffs — Virginia Mercury What started as a “small little bill” by Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Rockingham, to cap prejudgement interest in medical malpractice lawsuits on Wednesday evolved into a proposed doubling of payment caps f...

Last-minute tweak to bill could double Virginia's medical malpractice payment caps for plaintiffs - Virginia Mercury
#Virginia
#Malpractice
#Health

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@joindis.bsky.social

1 month ago

See how DIS compares: www.dentistinsuranceservices.com/professional-liability

#DentistTips #Malpractice #DentalPractice
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@joindis.bsky.social

1 month ago

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@joindis.bsky.social

1 month ago

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#Malpractice #Dentists
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Lady Thistlefrown - Exiled New Yorker ♿️

@dsafire.bsky.social

1 month ago

Amplifying: OP seeking #malpractice #Lawyer in #GA

@joindis.bsky.social

1 month ago

Fair. Transparent. Built for modern dentistry.

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#DSO #Malpractice #Dentists
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B∙R∙AI∙N

@brain.us.com

1 month ago

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

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GiGi Witchy

@gigi-witchy.bsky.social

2 months ago

Richmond doctor pleads guilty to injecting patients with ozone gas, many without consent A Richmond doctor has pleaded guilty after he injected several patients — many of them unknowingly — with ozone gas, claiming this unauthorized treatment would help with pain.

Richmond doctor pleads guilty to injecting patients with ozone gas, many without consent | WRIC ABC 8News share.google/XWaJjZZja2hn...

#ICYMI #fraud #malpractice #Healthcare

Where is the class action lawsuit?

Anecdote

@gaysandgardens.bsky.social

2 months ago

But props to her surgeon for having the balls to literally say "I was supposed to cut here. I cut here. I made a mistake. It's very bad." An ambulance ride to a better equipped hospital and a 6 hour surgery they had to call a specialist in for and looks like she'll be more or less ok. #malpractice

Indigo Technologies

@indigo-medmal.bsky.social

2 months ago

Claims: the Full Medical Malpractice Process Step by Step Medical malpractice process step by step explained for physicians, from claim notice and discovery to mediation, trial, & insurance defense.

#Malpractice cases don’t hinge on dramatic moments.

It's who was notified, what was documented & the early decisions.

By the time a case hits court, the outcome is mostly set.

Here’s how claims actually unfold 👇

#MedicalMalpractice #IndigoInsurance

www.getindigo.com/blog/medical...

Indigo Technologies

@indigo-medmal.bsky.social

2 months ago

Claims: the Full Medical Malpractice Process Step by Step Medical malpractice process step by step explained for physicians, from claim notice and discovery to mediation, trial, & insurance defense.

#Malpractice cases don’t hinge on 1 moment, they hinge on process: notification, documentation, & the decisions that shape exposure.

When a case hits court, the outcome is mostly set!

#MedicalMalpractice #IndigoInsurance

www.getindigo.com/blog/medical...

@joindis.bsky.social

2 months ago

Malpractice insurance isn’t a vibe.
It’s your legal shield.

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@joindis.bsky.social

2 months ago

He’s a 10… but the policy has gaps, exclusions, and fine print nobody warned you about. 🚩

Looks great on paper. Stressful in real life. Always watch for the red flags.

#Malpractice #Dentists #DentalPractice #Dentist2025

@joindis.bsky.social

2 months ago

See what your protection could look like here: www.dentistinsuranceservices.com/professional-liability

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@joindis.bsky.social

2 months ago

Thank you, Dr. James, for sharing the experience!

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