Malpractice Consult

Any aha! moments usually come before trial begins.

Attorneys Acacia Brush Perko, Esq, and Kenton H. Steele, Esq, provide an overview of malpractice claims.

Jury apportions fault among the plaintiff as well as the defendants.

A search of a legal database found 42 cases related to cystectomy over a 30-year period.

Required elements to prove a claim include breach of duty and damages.

The provider said the patient failed to timely return for follow-up.

Attorney Kenton H. Steele, Esq, discusses his recent Urology Times® column.

Rena Malik, MD, discusses findings from a recent Urology Practice study.

Steele outlines topics covered in his recent column, "Why urologists should beware the perils of friendly prescribing."

"The length of time provided by a statute of limitations on malpractice claims varies from state to state," writes Kenton H. Steele, Esq.

Prostate cancer symptoms were mistaken for other conditions.

In this interview, Steele provides best practices for urologists when presented with requests for informal prescriptions.

Here’s how to guard against lawsuits and disciplinary actions.

"The collaboration between the settling defendants and plaintiff mobilized the urologist, who ultimately participated in the overall settlement of the applicable malpractice cap," writes Acacia Brush Perko, Esq.

In this episode, Peter L. Steinberg, MD, discusses a recent Urology Practice paper that examined medical malpractice cases involving kidney stones.

Stone embedded in bladder wall, causing slow bleed

A urologist should have been consulted, an expert for the plaintiff said.

"The urologist contended that, at all times, he was willing to undergo any training program that the manufacturer or distributor recommended and that he used the microwave device at all times exactly as instructed by the proctor and by the literature given to him," writes Acacia Brush Perko, Esq.

"Following an adverse liability verdict, this defendant urologist did not also want the jury deciding damages," writes Acacia Brush Perko, Esq.

"The expert testified that the standard of care after penile prosthesis surgery is to leave the implant in a semi-inflated state for 4 to 6 weeks, when in fact the standard is to keep the implant in a deflated state," writes Brianne Goodwin, JD, RN.

Here are the six most-read "Malpractice Consult" columns of 2019 from Brianne Goodwin, JD, RN, and Acacia Brush Perko, Esq.

"Most people do not wish for their actions to be judged in hindsight; rather, if we are going to be judged, we want to be judged based on what we knew at the time," writes Acacia Brush Perko, Esq.

"The plaintiff alleged that she notified the urologist of her continuing pain and was told there was nothing wrong," writes Brianne Goodwin, JD, RN.

"In this case, a key component to the defense verdict was the fact that the defendants were able to provide convincing expert testimony regarding the outcome of the decedent’s situation if the diagnosis had been tendered earlier, as argued by the plaintiff," writes Acacia Brush Perko, Esq.

The court found that treatment performance was below the standard of care.