Tim Brocklehurst, MBA
Policy
Earlier pieces argued that a favorable malpractice outcome leaves almost no public footprint, that outcome documents are the only content that can answer an outcome question, and, from a nine-surgeon Florida sample, that a dismissed lawsuit can still cost privileges.…
Earlier pieces argued that a favorable malpractice outcome leaves almost no public footprint, that outcome documents are the only content that can answer an outcome question, and, from a nine-surgeon Florida sample, that a dismissed lawsuit can still cost privileges.
When I published the Florida findings in July, it might have been fair to argue that they were too particular to cause concern: nine surgeons, one state, one specialty. Florida’s …
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A dismissed malpractice lawsuit still outranks your win
Policy
A hospital credentialing committee is weighing an application for surgical privileges. Someone on the panel does what any of us would do: They type the surgeon's name into Google, and because they are being careful, they add one word: "lawsuit."…
A hospital credentialing committee is weighing an application for surgical privileges. Someone on the panel does what any of us would do: They type the surgeon’s name into Google, and because they are being careful, they add one word: “lawsuit.” A malpractice complaint surfaces on the first page. It lays out the allegation in plain language. What the panel does not see, anywhere on that page or the one after …
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A dismissed malpractice lawsuit can still cost privileges
Conditions
There is a number most physicians carry quietly, and a second number almost none of them are told. The first: If you practice medicine in the United States, the odds that you will be named in a malpractice claim at…
There is a number most physicians carry quietly, and a second number almost none of them are told.
The first: If you practice medicine in the United States, the odds that you will be named in a malpractice claim at some point in your career are high, and in some specialties close to certain. The American Medical Association’s most recent analysis of its Physician Practice Benchmark data puts the share of …
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Why a malpractice lawsuit follows you after you win
Tech
Kevin Pho has spent two decades making one argument to physicians: Your online reputation does not manage itself. Patients Google you before they call your office. What they find shapes their decision before you say a word. The solution, as…
Kevin Pho has spent two decades making one argument to physicians: Your online reputation does not manage itself. Patients Google you before they call your office. What they find shapes their decision before you say a word. The solution, as he has consistently framed it, is to create content, to claim the top listings rather than leaving them to chance.
That advice is correct. It is also, in one specific and …
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You won the lawsuit. Search still says you lost.
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