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ALTERNATIVE RESOLUTION

PRACTICE POINTS:

Of 500 English filed OBGYN malpractice claims, 41% of obstetric cases and 60% of gynecological cases were acknowledged to have merit.

There are indications that some physicians are more prepared to confront substandard care for the benefits of earlier termination of misguided litigation and reduction of escalating malpractice costs

The vigorous growth of medical malpractice litigation has spawned a small but detectable increase in the willingness of Defendants to settle

CORONARY PREVENTION

PRACTICE POINTS:

Standard medical care requires identification and treatment of the major causes, whether or not Coronary Heart Disease is diagnosed

Critical actions on suspecting a heart-attack are:

1 half an aspirin
2 ECG
3 cardiac enzymes

If ECG and cardiac enzymes are nondiagnostic, failure to hospitalise will likely be shown to have a material effect only if remediable complications developed

JUROR'S GENDER

PRACTICE POINTS:

Female jurors tend to be more Plaintiff-friendly

TEMPORO MANDIBULAR

PRACTICE POINTS:

Temporo Mandibular Dysfunction compromises many different syndromes with a wide range of physical and psychological causal factors

In clinical populations of Temporo Mandibular Dysfunction patients, trauma is not a major factor

In Post Traumatic TMD, it is prudent to corroborate the client’s account that symptoms first appeared after the injury by examination of pre-injury clinical records

Traumatic cause and the litigation process predict resistance to treatment

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