This website is devoted to offering support to physicians facing medical malpractice litigation. Underlying litigation is a clinical case that had a poor outcome. There are times when the outcome was beyond the control of the physician. Other times, a medical error could have been at the core of why the patient did not have…
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Michael Krasner M.D. on “Physician Resilience and Mindfulness”
More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true. But out of such persistence arose…
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Defense Attorney Jim Tuffin on “Preparing a Witness for Trial…
“And was this in accord with good and accepted practice?” “I hate this!” My client was up on his feet, pacing around the dining area of his home. We were getting ready for the trial. I did not know him well; another lawyer had handled the pre-trial depositions. His classic professional reserve and courtly manners…
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Psychologist William Gunn on “A New Hampshire State Medical Society Peer Group Support Program
A New Hampshire physician who experienced the stress and personal trauma of adverse events and litigation felt a strong desire to help others when faced with similar situations. She “went public”, discussed her experience in the local newspaper, and engaged the State Medical Society in creating a statewide peer support program. A steering committee was…
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