The toll medical malpractice litigation takes on the physician and other health care professionals is the untold story in many medical malpractice cases. As the media describe the plight of patient-plaintiffs and decry the escalating costs of litigation, the involved practitioners are left to cope with emotions that may range from pain and sorrow to shame and hopelessness.
Some physicians named in medical malpractice suits have left or contemplated leaving the profession of medicine, some have found solace in drugs and alcohol, and some have contemplated suicide as an escape from the isolation they experience. Those most at risk are those who try to navigate the waters of a malpractice suit without support.
This website has been established to decrease the likelihood that any practitioner involved in or facing the threat of medical malpractice litigation has to do so alone. Founded by physicians, insurance, and legal personnel who have extensive experience with physicians coping with the emotional dimension of medical malpractice, the website exists to support physicians in professional crisis by offering them:
- the recognition that a wide range of emotional responses to a medical malpractice suit is normal and natural.
- guidance to the objective information they need not merely to survive but, more, to prevail over the litigation process.
This site is not meant to replace either the one-on-one professional counseling that may be indicated in some situations or the support groups offered by some medical malpractice insurance carriers and ad hoc groups. It does, however, offer the physician a resource for gathering information about what to expect, how to cope, and when to seek help.
The Physician Litigation Stress Resource Center has compiled a bibliography of articles and recommended books that physicians and other health care professionals may find useful as they traverse the difficult territory of adverse events, their aftermath, and the litigation that may follow.
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