The toll of malpractice

Between the holidays and teaching at Marquette University I have still had time to keep an eye out for insights into physician and patient communication. The New York Times had an interesting article last week about the emotional toll a medical malpractice case can take on the physician involved. While the article does not offer any solutions to how malpractice cases are handled or how they should be handled, the article does offer insight into how the cases affect physicians and how the possibility of future malpractice suits affects how physicians communicate with their patients everyday.