Medical liability coverage for Texas physicians

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• Diagnostic errors
• TMB rules you may not know but should . . . part 2
• TMB rules you may not know but should . . . part 1
• TMB enforces new death certificate requirements
• Physician alert — Texas attorney general and federal agencies target health care professionals for use of unapproved drugs and devices
• Health care reform and physician employment
• Saving face: Facebook for physicians
• 10 medical liability myths
• The glutenous gremlin: celiac disease
• To screen or not to screen: the prostate cancer screening controversy
• Encourage your patients to Ask 3
• How Texas Legislators voted on health care reform bill
• Integrating patient email into your practice
• Challenges in managing anticoagulation therapy
• Managing the e-patient: caring for web-savy patients
• Informed consent for drugs and devices — observations, recommendations for Texas physicians
• You've been criticized online — now what? Monitoring your online reputation
• Practice set up and liability
• Lost in transition — coordinating care between inpatient and primary care physicians
• The cumulative effect: the risks of medical radiation exposure
• Volunteer and charity care: a look at the laws limiting liability exposure for volunteer health care professionals
• EMTALA: requirements for on-call physicians
• Physician impairment: a proactive approach
• Setting the record straight: dispelling 15 common medical record myths
• Terminating patient relationships: how to dismiss without abandoning
• Asset protection — revisited
• Blogger beware
• Resistance factor: physicians change prescribing practices as antimicrobial-resistant bacteria spread
• Potential pitfalls: risk management for the EMR
• Informed refusal: when patients decline treatment
• The art of patient interview: lessons drawn from journalists