Learning from Medical Errors

• The progress note. Good progress note, putting it all together. What you should not place in a progress note. Things to avoid doing clinically. Dealing with the difficult patient. Clinical tips to decrease liability in your practice Part 1. Clinical tips to decrease liability in your practice Part 2. Things that may go wrong (but are out of your control). Other legal issues involving emergency physicians. What to do after you are sued.

"'Today's physician is under pressures that physicians of prior generations would find hard to imagine. In Learning from Medical Errors: legal issues [the authors] deal systematically with the causes and effects of medical errors that have a disturbing tendency to creep into our medical practices unless we take positive steps to prevent them. All of us can benefit from a review of our clinical practices through the eyes of the authors' text, and their work brings a rigor and thoroughness to the analysis that satisfies our sense of professionalism. Their many examples...are well chosen and instructive. I recommend this text to physicians who are seeking a comprehensive text to help them avoid litigation and improve their quality of care.' David S Starr, in the Foreword"