The Superior Court in Maricopa County, AZ, overturned a trial court's decision barring a defendant hospital from communicating with its employees who had treated or were treating the plaintiff patient in a medical malpractice case.
A job application is the first look an employer gets at a potential employee. Along with providing the essential information an employer needs to know, it may also provide some more subtle-yet valuable-insight into whether that candidate is a good fit for the organization. The...
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is taking a stand to protect the identities of healthcare organizations, physicians, and other healthcare practitioners. In September 2011, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) shut down its public-use data file after...
We've all seen it before-a patient sues a hospital after a bad outcome, and the plaintiff's lawyers claim malpractice on the part of the treating physicians, dragging everyone else who was even remotely involved in the case into a long, drawn-out battle. The case takes years and...
Because I travel a lot, I receive numerous surveys and comment cards from airlines, car rental companies, and hotels. I almost never take the time to complete them unless something unusual has happened. It would just take too much time to do all of them. Most of us do not take...