In this article, we review complexity theory and assess its applicability to the strategic, tactical, and operational issues facing OR managers.

This article discusses how employers too often create binding contracts of which they are completely unaware—until the employee or former employee seeks to enforce the “contract” and collect on the liabilities the organization did not know it had.

The potential risk to physicians alleged to be negligent has resulted in a clinical entity called medical malpractice stress syndrome; it is a “forme fruste” of posttraumatic stress disorder.

This article explores the new malpractice considerations facing physicians in our constantly evolving digital world.

This article addresses some of the key reasons that cause physicians to resist testifying, and suggests ways for physicians to deliver their testimony in a way that is effective and can be understood by a jury.

We outline the common reasons why patients sue physicians, and what activities frequently lead to patient harm. The case examples emphasize the factors that can lead to allegations of negligence and patient harm.

The default position of many healthcare systems seeking physician alignment is to acquire the practice and employ the physicians, but there is another approach that poses far less financial risk to both parties and is far easier to undo if necessary:...

This article examines the distribution of drug-based quality assurance events (QAEs) post-discharge across five-day increments and identifies characteristics associated with post-discharge QAEs.

Despite the need for comprehensive obesity treatment and community health initiatives, it remains a problem to financially sustain a program that receives low to no reimbursement for services and also commits to numerous mission-based community event...

State licensing board investigations can subject a healthcare provider to serious discipline, up to and including license revocation.

The group of individuals you will find who are most bothered by medical malpractice and fraud, beyond the immediate victims, are the secondary victims: quality healthcare professionals.

In this article we look in detail at the lifecycle of the Pacific Coast salmon and how such an investigation may influence our medical careers.