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Hello everybody.

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My name is Dave uim

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and I am the co course director with my wife Kelly uim

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for the course on Medical-Legal Primer for radiologists.

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Welcome to part one. In Part one.

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We're going to look at the process prior

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to being named in a suit, and that is preparation

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and prevention.

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These are my disclosures.

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I do have several books by Elsevier

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and I am a medical-legal expert witness.

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And of course, I'm speaking here for modality

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for which I am one of the consultants.

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Much of the material about litigation is contained in our

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book that was published

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by Elsevier on Radiology business Practice, how to Succeed.

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And there are a couple chapters on medical-legal process.

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So in part one, we are going to talk about detection

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and interpretation errors

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and why they happen with one of the country's experts.

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On this, Michael Bruno, we'll talk about how

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to prevent being sued

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and what practices you can employ

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to reduce your chance of being sued.

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And then we will talk a little bit about your malpractice

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insurance and what you should know about it, so

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that way if you are sued, you're still safe.

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So our goals

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and objectives are for you to understand why we make

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mistakes and accept the fact that there are going

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to be detection and interpretation errors throughout your

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career to provide strategies for minimizing those mistakes,

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and then give an elementary take on your malpractice

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insurance policy and what the pearls

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and pitfalls are for having the appropriate coverage.

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So as I said, my name is Dave Usam.

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I'm one faculty at Johns Hopkins University School

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of Medicine within the Department of Radiology.

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I've been in practice for 35 years, limited

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to academic practice.

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I certainly have made lots

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and lots of mistakes over those 35 years.

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However, I've only been named in one lawsuit,

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and that was as a fellow when I was dropped immediately.

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I've been an expert witness for dozens of cases

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and both for plaintiff as well as defense,

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and I've had hundreds of conversations with my wife

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who you're going to meet now.

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So Kelly is the course director's director

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and she is a medical malpractice lawyer.

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She's been in practice for 35 years.

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Initially she was a prosecutor in the state of Ohio

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looking at, uh, child abuse cases.

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Then she went over to the defense side

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for personal liability and personal injury cases.

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And then over the most recent 20 years,

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she's been a plaintiff malpractice lawyer in Colorado

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and has reviewed thousands of cases, taken dozens of cases

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to court, had lots of personal experiences

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and lots of dinner conversations with her

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Radiologist husband.

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The other speaker that we'll be talking to

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and in this portion of the course is Michael Bruno.

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Michael is a professor of radiology medicine

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and vice Chair for Quality and Patient Safety,

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and the chief of the Division

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of Emergency Radiology at Penn State,

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Milton s Hershey Medical Center.

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And as you can see, Michael has many, many articles about

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why we make errors and the different type of errors

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and what you might do to mitigate those errors

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and to learn from our mistakes.