Physicians and the Law: The Intersection of Medicine, Business, and Medical Malpractice

Healthcare providers encounter complex problems in medical, business, and legal venues on a daily basis, and in an ever-evolving landscape. However, an incomplete understanding of how these three arenas intersect can undermine ability and confidence in handling the resulting medical and business decisions.

Physicians and the Law employs succinctly stated concepts to create a toolkit for healthcare providers to confidently tackle the everyday intersection of medicine, business, and law. This book will help all who read it to develop an in-depth understanding of how these three key issues overlap and to gain the insights to feel empowered to make improved decisions.

By providing detailed approaches to medical problems, business transactions, and legal conundrums that you will encounter in your day-to-day work environment.

Here are just some of the topics Dr. Paterick discusses in detail:

• The New Business Model of Medicine
• The Fundamentals of Liability Insurance: Physician and Organization Perspectives
• Changing Perspectives in Medical Practice: Disruptive Innovation
• Risk Management Principles for Physicians
• Physician Professionalism: Ethical and Moral Duties Young Physicians Encounter in the New Business Model of Medicine
• Why Patients Sue Physicians: Risk Management Strategies
• Malpractice Considerations: New Concerns on the Horizon
• Medical Malpractice Stress Syndrome: A "Forme Fruste" of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Liability of Physicians Supervising Non-physician Clinicians
• Professional Liability Pertinent to Graduate Medical Education: The Intersection of Medical Education, Patient Care, and Liability
• The Importance of the Medical Record: A Critical Professional Responsibility
• Heightened Malpractice Risk for Hospitalist Physicians in the United States - What to Know and What to Do
• Physician Alert: The Legal Risks Associated with "On-Call" Duties in the United States
• Implications of Good Samaritan Laws for Physicians
• The Sunshine Act - What Every Physician Needs to Know in this Novel and Evolving Transparency World
• Medical Informed Consent: General Considerations for Physicians
• Medical Liability in the Electronic Medical Records Era
• Peer Review - Legal and Ethical Issues Faced by Medical Staff: The Mandate for Physician Leadership
• The National Practitioner Data Bank: Requisite Medical-Legal Issues for Physicians
• The World of Sports and Physician Liability
• Physician Fiduciary: Understanding Trusteeship

If you're a healthcare provider, Physicians and The Law will give you the toolkit you need to expertly navigate the space between medicine, business, and law.

Author: Timothy E. Paterick
Publisher: American Association for Physician Leadership
Published: 11/01/2021
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780984831135

About the Author
Paterick, Timothy E.: - "Timothy E. Paterick MD, JD, MBA, and Master's in Physician Leadership and Management, is a cardiologist with a passion for preventive health measures, sports medicine, the law, and teaching residents and fellows medicine. While practicing full-time cardiology Paterick has written over one hundred peer reviewed articles in medical literature, has been an invited speaker across the country on medical and legal issues, and has authored three other books: Invest in Yourself: A Cardiologist's Narrative for Heart Health, Health through Hope: Look in People's Eyes, and Physician: Time to Invest in Yourself-Work-Life Balance, the Needs of the Patient, and Medical-Legal Risk Management.His continued study of medicine, law, business, and leadership/management has led to an understanding of how they intersect and impact practicing physicians.Dr. Paterick played college basketball at the University of Wisconsin - Madison on scholarship. He then graduated from Rush medical school in Chicago, Illinois. After medical school he trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.Dr. Paterick is a lifelong scholar-athlete. He was named first team All State in high school and to the top 24 high school basketball players in America his senior year in high school. At the University of Wisconsin, he was awarded the Ivy Williamson award for outstanding achievement in athletics and academics. After completing medical education at Rush Medical College and his medical training at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Paterick completed his law degree at the University of Wisconsin followed by his MBA at Edgewood College. He also completed a master's degree from UT - Southwestern in Physician Leadership and Management.Dr. Paterick's passion is teaching medical residents, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and cardiology fellows and young basketball players. Many medical residents and cardiology fellows have achieved high levels of clinical expertise through his teaching and mentorship. Both his sons, having played Division 1 college basketball, exemplify his basketball-teaching prowess. They are highly successful professionals reifying his teaching/mentoring abilities. He attributes any success he has experienced in life to his wife and life-long best friend, Barb."