LAS VEGAS — Physicians can mitigate their legal risk by documenting their clinical reasoning and staying informed about emerging medical-legal issues, a speaker at OMED said.
Medical legal “is always a great topic for people to learn more” about, John R. Casey, DO, MA, FACOEP-D, director of medical education at OhioHealth Doctors Hospital, told Healio.
“It’s not meant to be scary. Some people think it’s a bit dry, but I think it’s interesting if you look at it with the same lens that you look at quality review,” Casey said. “If you think about it from the fact that we all do medicine, we’re