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Dr. Gordon Schiff discusses how to prevent a patient's heart attack, this practice would have needed better systems to monitor and identify chronic risk factors.

A top surgeon mistakenly performed carpal tunnel instead of trigger release procedure after multiple interruptions and personnel shift changes in OR.

Nation's “first malpractice crisis” resulted in 1821, after a horse fell on a man and the surgeon waited a month to visit his patient to see if his attempted hip reduction worked.

Lack of collaboration and poor documentation among the factors in large settlement with severely compromised infant.

The surgeon orchestrated a great recovery from a massive bleed that resulted in blindness, but the patient sued for answers.

The patient was under 50 and lack of communication between the PCP and GI about a sigmoidoscopy order contributed to a diagnostic failure.

The surgeon postponed removing a catheter fragment, and then forgot about it.

The patient and his wife felt that the surgeon was not forthcoming with an explanation of what happened and seemed indifferent to the impact on his patient, following conversion to an open procedure and large blood loss.

Clear liability case from a reversed X-ray was resolved efficiently with insurer/institution cooperation.