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What can be done to maintain quality care for patients and reduce medical-legal risks for physicians when patients do not heed medical advice.
Physicians can take steps to address bullying and other abusive behaviours they may be subjected to by patients and their families, colleagues and other healthcare workers, and third parties.
Physicians can take these steps to maintain a safe office environment for their employees.
Responsibilities of physicians when planning to close or leave a practice due to retirement, illness, or other reasons.
Physicians working in walk-in clinics face unique challenges and medical-legal risks related to team communication, management of test results, and review of delegated work.
Physicians should participate in quality assurance activities such as debriefs and should reduce their medical-legal risks by ensuring the debriefs are properly structured.
Advice for physicians working with physician assistants, including issues such as delegation, supervision, and liability insurance.
Physicians supervising medical trainees must keep in mind their responsibilities to patients when delegating tasks to trainees.
Wellness strategies and resources for physician residents
When physicians offer a clinical comment or opinion that will be relied on to care for a patient, they may owe that patient a duty of care—even if they have never met the patient in person.
A review of the legal duties and ethical considerations for physicians to report their reasonable concerns about the professional competency, conduct or behaviour of another physician to health care institutions/hospitals, public health officials or regulatory authorities (Colleges).
Advice for Canadian doctors when their patients seek healthcare outside of Canada as medical tourists.
Key points for physicians to keep in mind if they are providing cosmetic medicine procedures.
Consulting physicians may be expected to provide appropriate advice to referring physicians even when their facility cannot accept the patient.
Highlights from CMPA discussion paper “The role of physician leaders in addressing physician disruptive behaviour in healthcare institutions.”
A summary of key principles relating to safe delegation.
Physicians should be aware of the pros and cons of social media and the risks of participating.
Guidance for providing disclosure following harmful incidents in which more than one patient is affected.
An analysis of CMPA medico-legal cases involving unintentionally retained foreign bodies during surgery, and suggested approaches to mitigate the risks.
The Colleges outline expectations for continuity of care, and physicians can enhance continuity when they are aware of their professional obligations, and have the necessary systems in place for managing tests, patient transfers, and availability and coverage.
An overview of communication strategies physicians can use to help resolve conflict with other physicians or other healthcare providers.
Communication and conflict resolution skills may help physicians deal effectively and safely with challenging patient encounters.
Physicians regularly encounter patients or family members who behave aggressively and make demands that may be unrealistic and potentially harmful. In their medical practice, physicians need strategies and tools to manage conflict and such challenging behaviours.
Ambulance offload delay results from ED crowding and can present unique medico-legal risks for ED physicians.
Care for patients with mental health concerns can be complicated, especially when access to psychiatric expertise is limited. Consider these strategies to address medical-legal risks when managing patients’ mental health needs.
This article discusses infections associated with intravenous drug use. These infections are on the rise and can be diagnostically challenging.
Clarity about who is responsible for the care of a patient at any given time improves patient safety and reduces medico-legal risk.
Physician leaders who foster a culture of accountability in their teams and institutions help promote learning from undesirable behaviours that include human error, and at-risk and reckless behaviour.
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