This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Topic Collections  • Medical Practice  • Law and Medicine  • Patient-Physician Relationship/ Care  • Patient-Physician Communication  • Alert me on articles by topic  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By Marjorie O. Thomas, Christine J. Quinn, and Geraldine M. Donohue
280 pp, $52.95
Sudbury, MA, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-4856-2

JAMA. 2009;302(19):2158.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Practicing Medicine in Difficult Times provides a competent if generic overview of the myriad techniques available to physicians to assist in reducing the chances of incurring a medical malpractice claim. Because most of the chapters are coauthored by an attorney or physician, a degree of legal and medical proficiency infuses portions of the narrative with a practical, authentic methodology. Overall, the book lacks a cohesive theme, instead opting for a shotgun approach that leaves the reader without an understanding of the real reasons patients file medical malpractice claims.

The book is authored by 3 risk managers at the insurance management company Administrators for the Professions Inc; in addition, of its 12 contributing authors, 8 are associated with that company or its affiliates. Some readers may consider a single group of employees at one insurance company writing a book about protecting physicians from malpractice claims myopic, but in the 3 chapters . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alan G. Williams, JD, Reviewer
Florida Coastal School of Law
Jacksonville
awilliams@fcsl.edu

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?