Medical malpractice and tort reform in the USA -- Avoiding problems with Qui Tam, HIPPA, and other disciplinary actions -- Maritime medical malpractice -- Defensive moves and strategies to avoid medical malpractice suits in primary medical care and specialist practice -- Proactive strategies to reduce malpractice risks in primary care and surgical practice -- Proactive strategies to reduce malpractice risks in psychiatry -- What you must know about managed care snares and punitive damages -- How to avert or deal with a potential medical malpractice suit : strategies for averting medical malpractice -- What to do and not to do in a pending or ongoing medical malpractice suit -- Alterante dispute resolution as an alternative to medical malpractice litigation : alternate dispute resolution, mediationm and other options for the defendant physician -- Caveats on testifying physicians : attorney relationships -- How physicians can be investigated prior to trial : investigating the medical expert witness -- Overview of a medical malpractice trial -- Introducing the physician to legal testimony : preparing the defendant physician for testimony -- A trial judge's advice to testifying physicians on enhancing credibility in court -- Medical malpractice terms and definitions for the testifying physician -- Medical malpractice terms and tips for the testifying physician -- How to prepare for and handle your deposition : deposition preparation for the physician -- How to manage attorney abuse -- Ten examples on the Daubert impact on physician testimony -- The use of evidence- based medicine to fend off a Daubert and cross examination challenge of your medical opinion[s] -- Resource of legal theories, themes, and analogies for the medical expert witness -- Example of translating for the jury; medicalese into understandable English -- Lessons from my expert testimony mistakes -- Critiques and golden nuggets for physician defendants and medical expert witnesses -- Medical expert witness rewards.
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