"Viperdoc" wrote

She was only a few hours out from her accident, and was still in the
operating room, yet somehow one of the local personal injury lawyers had
gotten the brochure into her chart!

Talk about aggressive marketing!

I hope you did the proper thing, with non medical material found in a chart.

Even that will not do any good, but make you feel better. He will be back,
in person.

Oh, and I hope that patient walks again with no pain or other side
effects... or you could be the next target, whether you did anything wrong,
or not.

But you already know that, and pay the insurance to protect yourself against
the lawyers.

All of this does bring up a good question, that you may or may not be able
to answer-depending on the billing structure or how your practice is set up.

What is the percentage cost of the malpractice insurance you carry versus
the physician's charges, and perhaps you would know how much the total
hospital malpractice insurance costs versus all of the hospital's charges?

I would be fascinated to know, and I think many others here would surprised
to know the figures, too.
--
Jim in NC