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MedMal Insider

MedMal Insider

60 episodes

For more than 20 years, CRICO has analyzed claims and suits from the Harvard medical community to understand causes of error. We have learned that 67% of claims fall into four high risk areas: Diagnosis, Obstetrics, Surgery and Medication.

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Overdose or Poor Documentation?

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds

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Response to Charges of Discrimination can Help or Hurt a Hospital, Any Employer

Published: July 11, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds

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Slow to Diagnose Endocarditis After Repeat Visits

Published: April 4, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds

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Signs of Bias in Rejected Request for Accommodation

Published: Dec. 12, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds

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Health Payment Reform Act: Rules to Protect Providers

Published: Sept. 27, 2022, 9 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 35 seconds

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Cardiac Event Mismanaged in ED

Published: April 13, 2022, 9 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 39 seconds

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Womans Stroke Progressed in ED without Intervention

Published: Nov. 16, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds

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Surgery Change Needed Better Consent

Published: Aug. 6, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 47 seconds

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Lack of Preparation, Safety Culture, Contributed to Loss of Baby

Published: June 2, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds

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Unclear Discharge Instructions, Patient Loses Foot

Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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Woman Dies from Post-op Stroke When Anticoagulant Not Restarted

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds

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Young Patient, Flawed Test, Fatal Delay in Colon CA Diagnosis

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 56 seconds

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What Else Might This Be? Might Have Saved PE Patient

Published: July 20, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 6 seconds

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A Forgotten Stent and Unclear Responsibility for Follow Up

Published: April 2, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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Nothing is Routine for an Anxious Patient or Family

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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Status Change Missed, Consultation Flawed, and the Patient Loses Baby

Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 7 seconds

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Radiology Didnt Know Risk Status Before Patient Fall, Head Injury

Published: May 16, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds

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Fatal Misplaced Tube Casts Light on Supervision, Competence Assessment

Published: April 8, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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ICU Feeding Tubes

Published: April 5, 2019, 7:04 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Doctors Lose Their Own Malpractice Case

Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 43 seconds

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Part I: Harvard Joins IHI to Cut Referral Mistakes

Published: April 16, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 4 seconds

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Poor Communication of Doctors Orders Leads to Preventable Death

Published: Dec. 22, 2017, 10 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 1 second

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ED, Stuck on Wrong Diagnosis, Blamed the Patient

Published: Nov. 20, 2017, 10 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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NP Misses Fatal Illness on Phone with Patients Dad

Published: Sept. 11, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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For This Patient, Opioids for Pain Resulted in Suicide, Court Settlement

Published: Aug. 1, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 39 seconds

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Culture Helped, Hurt in this Dosage Error

Published: Feb. 28, 2017, 10 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds

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No Review of Test Result, and Girl Suffers Wrong Dx for Years

Published: Dec. 23, 2016, 10 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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Missing an MI When Symptoms Didn't Match Diagnosis

Published: Sept. 1, 2016, 9 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes

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Distraction, Poor Planning for OB Patient

Published: Aug. 4, 2016, 3:29 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 2 seconds

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Was This Primary Care Provider Too Rushed?

Published: May 17, 2016, 3:29 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 2 seconds

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Troubled Brew: Multiple Providers, Disjointed Care, Lost Kidney Function

Published: Feb. 2, 2016, 10 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Spine Surgery: Someone Should Have Said Time Out

Published: Sept. 2, 2015, 9 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 52 seconds

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Diagnostic Dropped Ball: Nobody Followed Up on Lung Nodule

Published: May 7, 2015, 9 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 49 seconds

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Unfair But So What? Trial for MD After Patient Skips Screening

Published: March 3, 2015, 10 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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Asplenic Patient Disabled after Providers Overlooked Infection Risk

Published: March 25, 2014, 9:02 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 17 seconds

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Missed Steps Delay Breast Diagnosis

Published: Oct. 31, 2013, 9 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 7 seconds

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A Missed MI Diagnosis and Death After Office Visit

Published: July 25, 2013, 9 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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Misread of Data Slowed Response, Hurt Patient

Published: April 17, 2013, 9 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 21 seconds

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Misread of Data Slowed Response, Hurts Patient

Published: April 16, 2013, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 21 seconds

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Patient Loses Finger after Medication Error in ER

Published: Feb. 25, 2013, 10 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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Missed MI and a Failure to Connect the Dots

Published: Jan. 15, 2013, 10 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds

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Surgeon: 'I Blew It' Hospital: 'We Blew It'

Published: Oct. 23, 2012, 4:40 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 7 seconds

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Late Follow Up Miffed Patient in 1821 Ortho Case

Published: Sept. 17, 2012, 9 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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Midwife Didnt Seek OB Consult on Fetal Heart Rate

Published: July 31, 2012, 9 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds

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Bleed Recovery Good, But Disclosure Faulted

Published: June 1, 2012, 9 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds

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Test Delay Blamed in Woman's Colon Cancer Death

Published: April 9, 2012, 7 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds

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Test Delay Blamed in Womans Death

Published: April 9, 2012, 9 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds

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Diagnostic Failures Prompt Referral Changes.

Published: Dec. 9, 2011, 11:56 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes

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Retained Object: Reliance on Memory Harms Patient

Published: June 16, 2011, 9 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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Lack of Empathy Triggers Suit Against Surgeon

Published: Feb. 3, 2011, 10 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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Drug Error Reviewed by Non-Healthcare Methods

Published: Feb. 3, 2011, 6:41 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 2 seconds

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Removal of Infant's Healthy Kidney

Published: Aug. 9, 2010, 6:41 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 3 seconds

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Closed Claim Abstract: Lack of Prostate Discussion Caused Legal Pain

Published: July 2, 2010, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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Sent Home Twice Before Baby Born Sick

Published: April 2, 2010, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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Sleep Apnea Patient Dies After Eye Surgery

Published: Feb. 16, 2010, 3 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 45 seconds

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Deaths Preventable with Computers

Published: Oct. 23, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 25 seconds

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Delayed Diagnosis of Post-op Infection

Published: Sept. 14, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds

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Assumptions Among Providers Delay DX

Published: June 5, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 11 seconds

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Attending Unaware of Patient Problems

Published: April 2, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes

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Multiple Providers Miss PE

Published: Oct. 3, 2008, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 23 seconds

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Repeat ED Visits, Delayed Diagnosis, Lost Ovary

Published: Oct. 3, 2008, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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No Screen, Then Colon CA: Closed Claim Abstract

Published: July 18, 2008, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 49 seconds

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Wrong Site, Quickly Settled: Closed Claim Abstract

Published: March 19, 2008, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 53 seconds

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Five Hours to Deliver Twin B: Closed Claim Abstract

Published: Jan. 23, 2008, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds

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Long Surgery, Consent Faulted in Blindness: Closed Case Abstract

Published: Oct. 17, 2007, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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Vague Talk Between OB and RN Caused Delay: Closed Case Abstract

Published: Aug. 29, 2007, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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Atypical Pain-Missed MI in ED: Closed Case Abstract

Published: May 31, 2007, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds

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Communication Miscues: Closed Claim Abstract

Published: Dec. 29, 2006, 4:42 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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When to Seek a Consult: Closed Claim Abstract

Published: Dec. 7, 2006, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds

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Preparing for the Worst: Closed Claim Abstract

Published: Nov. 17, 2006, 9:17 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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Identifying System Flaws: Closed Claim Abstract

Published: Nov. 1, 2006, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes

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Knowing What to Say: Closed Claim Abstract

Published: Oct. 18, 2006, 4:06 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 3 seconds

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Diagnosis and Communication: Closed Claim Abstract

Published: Oct. 4, 2006, 4:38 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 56 seconds

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Wrong Site, Quickly Settled

Published: July 1, 2006, 9 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 9 seconds

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