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Article: Uterus branding shows risk and benefits of a videotape.
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- Healthcare Risk Management
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Uterus branding shows risk and benefits of a videotape
In a recent lawsuit, a woman accused her doctor of branding his alma maters initials on her uterus during surgery. A legal expert says the crux for risk managers is how the videotape of the surgery both caused the lawsuit and might end it in the doctors favor.
If not for the videotape sent home as a keepsake for the patient, the lawsuit might never have been filed, according to Richard Boone, JD, an attorney in Vienna, VA, who specializes in defending medical malpractice lawsuits. But once the lawsuit was filed, the videotape became the doctors very best defense, he says. That conundrum illustrates ...