BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1791588:Event:72183 DTSTAMP:20260412T120439Z SUMMARY:The 11th Annual Multispecialty Conference on Medical Negligenc e and Risk Management in Medicine, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Radiol ogy, & Family Medicine DESCRIPTION:The 11th Annual Multispecialty Conference on Medical Negli gence and Risk Management in Medicine, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Ra diology, & Family Medicine\nJanuary 5 – 8, 2011\nFairmont Kea Lani S uites, Maui, Hawaii\n\nTo err is human, and hence, forgivable, until i t is you or a loved one that is irreparably harmed by medical error. I nstantaneous thoughts, like lightning, seek to pinpoint fault and culp ability. Pause a moment and reflect on the fact that wrong-side or sit e surgeries are performed in about 4,000 cases annually in the U.S. al one. About 100,000 deaths annually occur from health-care associated i nfections, most being preventable! The focus on system-errors has take n front and center place, as the need to implement changes have become self-evident. Such changes have included the development of checklist s and computer-driven and checked orders (no incorrectly written and r ead prescriptions or incorrect doses). Insufficient attention has, how ever, been paid to personal physician accountability and to the need f or appropriate disciplinary action. The medical establishment has long recognized that while most of us become occasional defendants, a rela tive few become incorrigible offenders who unabashedly continue to pra ctice medicine.\n\nNotwithstanding the obvious “scientific” import ance of checklists and systems, the practice of medicine is also an ar t, requiring knowledge and skills far beyond the installation of organ ized systems. It is the personal skills that make the compleat physici an and which endow the qualities of sound reasoning and clinical judgm ent. These are not easily acquired and their absence may be evident in recurring litigation.\n\nBeyond individual failure are a myriad numbe r of factors that singly or together compound the likelihood of legal claims. These failures include a lack of documentation, communication errors and misplaced reliance on others (partners, nurses, residents, and office staff).\n\nThese two multispecialty conferences bring into sharp focus new and established guidelines and standards of care, issu es of competence, new advances, and ethics. The first conference conce ntrates on pregnancy, its management and outcome, while the interdigit ating and overlapping second conference takes up discussion along simi lar themes, but in multiple specialties.\n\nThe goal of this activity is to address the following knowledge gaps:\nTeach healthcare professi onals to better comprehend the machinations of negligence law, and to develop a more complete awareness of the need for anticipatory and saf ety practice.\nTeach legal professionals about the complex issues enco untered in the practice of medicine, including the intricacies of deci sion-making, aiming to sharpen their understanding on behalf of their clients, both plaintiff and defense.\n\nOnly through a thorough unders tanding of the challenges physicians face and recognition of the criti cal role lawyers have in influencing medical practice and how hospital s function, can we hope to deal effectively with the continuing pressu res of medical practice.\n\nAt the conclusion of this conference, heal thcare professionals will be able to articulate the role of law and la wyers in medical malpractice cases and discuss the complexities of the legal process.\n\nAt the conclusion of this conference, legal profess ionals will be able to describe the best-evidence in medical practice as it pertains to obstetrics, gynecology, midwifery, neonatology, medi cine, surgery, family medicine, emergency medicine, cardiology, radiol ogy and human genetics.\n\nOnce again, an extraordinarily experienced and superb faculty has been assembled for these 27th and 11th annivers ary conferences that will be important to all the specialties mentione d including nurse practitioners, trial attorneys, pediatricians, prima ry care physicians, insurers, risk managers and all providers of healt hcare.\n\nFor more information visit https://community.radrounds.com/e vents/the-11th-annual-multispecialty DTSTART:20110105T050000Z DTEND:20110109T045900Z CATEGORIES:annual, conference LOCATION:Fairmont Kea Lani Suites WEBSITE:http://www.bumc.bu.edu/cme/educational-opportunities/live-meet ings/medneg11/ URL:http://www.bumc.bu.edu/cme/educational-opportunities/live-meetings /medneg11/ CONTACT: ORGANIZER:Boston University School of Medicine ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="radRound s Radiology Events":https://community.radrounds.com/profile/radRoundsR adiologyEvents END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR