Hospitalists: Their Role and Who They Are Over the past couple of decades, and increasingly moreso recently, hospitalists have come to play an important role in the health care community. While there have always been doctors who worked primarily in hospitals, the position has only recently come into its own as a unique and increasingly
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Got BOP?
In our newest blog post, we break out the Business Owner’s Policy. One of our goals at eQuoteMD is to help doctors and medical professionals think about the kinds of routine challenges and decisions they have to face every day, not just in terms of medical malpractice insurance, but in the broader course of a
READ MOREA Medical Malpractice Reform Roundup
Despite then Senator Barack Obama’s support for medical malpractice reform in 2006, when he co-authored an article for the New England Journal of Medicine with Hillary Clinton highlighting its importance, the healthcare reform bill that we ended up with does little to nothing to address malpractice reform. On one hand, that is frustrating to many of us
READ MOREDefensive Medicine: Arbitration, Is it Feasible?
Over the past several weeks here at eQuoteMD we’ve been taking a look at the issue of defensive medicine, defined as the practice of ordering medical tests, procedures, or consultations of doubtful clinical value in order to protect the prescribing physician from malpractice suits. In other words, defensive medicine describes the result of the feeling that many
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