Deaf patients require interpreters fluent in sign language. Federal law mandates you provide one. The defendant in today's episode provided his deaf patient with someone beyond adept in sign language - a member of his staff who happened to be the mother of a deaf child. And yet - when treatment ended, a lawsuit was served. It alleged the patient was not provided with a qualified interpreter and experienced a sub-optimal outcome as a result.
Could anything have been done to avoid this end? Jeff and Mike discuss...
EP 94: Surgeon Unmasks the Unmaskable Defamatory Reviewer - How She Did It (Part 2)
EP 93: Surgeon Unmasks the Unmaskable Defamatory Reviewer - How She Did It (Part 1)
EP 92: Raving Patients and Reputation Marketing with Dr. Len Tau (Part 2)
EP 91: Raving Patients and Reputation Marketing with Dr. Len Tau (Part 1)
EP 90: Prescribing Testosterone and Other Controlled Substances Without Getting Blown Up (Part 2 of 2)
EP 89: Prescribing Testosterone and Other Controlled Substances Without Getting Blown Up (Part 1 of 2)
EP 88: Surviving Board Issues from Hell (Part 2 of 2)
EP 87: Surviving Board Issues from Hell (Part 1 of 2)
EP 86: The Ideal Screening Tool for Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Ounce of Prevention Worth Pounds of Cure (Part 2 of 2)
EP 85: The Ideal Screening Tool for Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Ounce of Prevention Worth Pounds of Cure (Part 1 of 2)
EP 84: Doctors, Data Theft, and Cyber Liability Protection (Part 2 of 2)
EP 83: Doctors, Data Theft, and Cyber Liability Protection (Part 1 of 2)
EP 82: Charting the Healthcare Professional’s Path to Wealth (Part 2)
EP 81: The Radonda Vaught Verdict from a Nurse’s Perspective (Part 2 of 2)
EP 80: Charting the Healthcare Professional’s Path to Wealth (Part 1)
EP 79: The Radonda Vaught Verdict from a Nurse’s Perspective (Part 1 of 2)
EP 77: Bad News, Wrong Man. Patient‘s Prostate Removed by Mistake.
EP 78: Delayed Melanoma Diagnosis Dooms Patient - Or Does It? The Wonky World of Loss of Chance.
EP 76: Pandemic Violence, Produce Sabotage, Physician Infighting in Idaho. The COVID Half-Hour.
EP 75: Fertility Specialist Impregnates Multiple Patients with His Own Sperm and Examines His Own Daughter - 30 Years Later...
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