Is Patient Satisfaction a Factor in Lawsuits?
Doctors feel hurried these days, and they resent it. They believe that the demands of their days have caused them to spend less time with patients. They also believe that their patients resent it. Let's look at what has really happened to the office visit -- and then let's see if better patient satisfaction levels correlate with fewer lawsuits.
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Manufacturer Agrees to Pay $74 Million
Natick, MA-based Boston Scientific Corp. has agreed to pay $74 million to the United States to resolve an ongoing investigation concerning its 1998 distribution and subsequent recall of one of its coronary stent delivery systems. In agreeing to the settlement, the company did not admit to any wrongdoing.
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Using Daubert to Defeat Causation in the Delayed Diagnosis Claim
<b><i>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</i></b>: The <i>McDowell</i> case discussed in the first part of this article presented the question of "whether it is so if an expert says it is so." <i>See Viterbo v. Dow Chem. Co.</i>, 826 F.2d 420, 421 (5th Cir. 1987). <i>Daubert</i> and its progeny answered in the negative and established that an expert may not present a bare causation conclusion to the jury when that expert has no scientific basis for that conclusion or for any of the predicate inferences leading up to it. The <i>McDowell</i> claim failed because a physician's personal clinical experience, sometimes called anecdotal experience, is simply not a proper scientific basis for causation opinion testimony.
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The Keys To Building A Successful Book Of Business
1. Understand that building a client base is a key factor in determining your success as an attorney. The hard fact is (although it was not taught us in…
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<b>Media & Communications Corner:</b> Becoming Your Reporter's Best Friend
If there is one thing that everyone in your law firm marketing department can agree upon, it is the importance of cultivating and maintaining relationships with editors and reporters. Your team has likely recognized this basic point for years, as have the marketing departments of your competitors. It is just as probable, though, that one (or both) of you have seen these efforts stagnate, as happens all too regularly. You lose track of the fundamentals. In what manner, then, can your firm begin to refresh its efforts, and keep ahead of the Jones, Jones & Jones LLP's? What creative methods can you implement that will make a reporter think of your firm and your attorneys first?
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Networking, Growing Books Of Business. Dare I say it? Sales!
Professional services practitioners ' be they lawyers, doctors, accountants, financial planners, or even insurance agents ' all have one thing in common: They need clients in order to provide their services. <br>But how much time studying about building a career? Attracting clients to the firm? Establishing relationships? Exactly; not much! Nonetheless, recognizing that you need training and getting good training are not necessarily one in the same
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Billing Your Client? Think Branding In The Process
The foundation of marketing is branding. Although branding drives most attorneys crazy because brands resist logical definitions, your firm's brand is an essential element of marketing legal services. In essence, brands are an array of impressions and beliefs that surround your firm, and create expectations about the kind of attorneys the firm has and the work it performs. Since brands create an emotional connection between attorneys and their clients, your brand can be considered your firm's personality.
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