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Sexual dysfunction damages: A legal database review
CONCLUSIONS: Most suspected malpractice cases resulting in sexual dysfunction favored the defendant urologist. Interestingly, urinary catheter placement is as likely to result in litigation as other operative interventions, such as RALP, inflatable penile prosthesis, and circumcision. It is possible that thorough preoperative counselling and increased responsiveness to patients' postoperative concerns may have avoided litigation in several cases.PMID:34941485 | DOI:10.5489/cuaj.7393
Source: Canadian Urological Association Journal - December 23, 2021 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Erin Jesse Wade Muncey Daniel Harris Kimberly Tay Tyler Kim Danly Omil-Lima Ilaha Isali Aram Loeb Nannan Thirumavalavan Source Type: research

Healthcare Update — 07-24-2014
This study might suggest that mega-hospital care is better, but is immediate care in small volume emergency departments better than delays in care during travel to a mega-hospital … or no care at all because patients can’t get there? This may explain why doctors are so good at practicing defensive medicine. During their careers, doctors spend more time in the courtroom than in the classroom. The headline is misleading since during a lawsuit, doctors aren’t in the courtroom 40 hours per week as they are during medical school. The point is that for 11% of their careers, an average physician has a lawsuit ha...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - July 24, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs