ProAssurance Risk Management Podcast

ProAssurance's Risk Management Podcast, published every other month, for iTunes offers a risk management perspective on topics of interest to physicians, health systems administrators, and dentists. If you subscribe, you'll automatically receive the latest podcast. Subscribing is four easy steps:

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  1. Launch iTunes.
  2. In the Advanced menu, select Subscribe to Podcast.
  3. Enter the following URL in the text box:
    1. http://www.proassurance.com/podcasts/pra_rmp.xml
  4. Click OK.

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Podcast Episodes

Curbing Liability from Curbside Consults (10 min.)
What Every Physician Should Know About the National Practitioner Data Bank (11 min.)
Disruptive Behavior and Its Impact on Patient Care (9 min.)
Disclosure and Apology (14 min.)
Reducing Liability Risks Involved in Performing Independent Medical Examinations (12 min.)
Medication Injuries in Malpractice Claims (13 min.)
Informed Consent Revisited: What Is Required Of Physicians? (14 min.)
Don't Abandon Medical Judgment to Please Patients (11 min.)
Failure To Inform Patients Of Abnormal Test Results Can Be a Costly Error: The "No News Is Good News" Approach To Test Results Is an Unsafe Policy (12 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management: Avoiding Liability When Patients Are Noncompliant (13 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management: Educating the Patient and Family Members to Reduce Malpractice Risk (9 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management: Educating Patients to Improve Care and Reduce Liability (14 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management:How To Avoid Problems When the Doctor-Patient Relationship Ends (8 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management: Safe Referrals--Communication, Clarity, and Courtesy (13 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management: Reducing Malpractice Liability Through Proper Staff Orientation (10 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management: Telephone Advice--Service or Hazard? (10 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management: Altered Medical Records Handicap the Defense of Malpractice Cases--Alterations, Corrections, and Additions Provoke Suspicions of Guilt (11 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management: Medical Records and Their Role in Malpractice Litigation (11 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management: Ignoring Patients' Complaints Sets the Stage for Litigation (9 min.)
ProAssurance Risk Management: Criticizing Prior Care... Are You Chumming the Waters in Which You Swim? (8 min.)