Medical Economics offers tools, tips and resources to help physicians run a successful medical practice. The medical malpractice section provides legal resources that help you navigate health law issues involving doctor-patient communication; medical records; malpractice insurance and litigation.

	Asset protection—Safeguarding your wealth; and how to protect assets during malpractice proceedings
	Awards/settlements—Settling a malpractice case or going to trial
	Behind the med-mal crisis—Examining the causes of the malpractice crisis
	Communication—Patient relations; telephone answering services; difficult patients and e-mailing patients
	Depositions/subpoenas/testimony—Surviving malpractice depositions; complying with subpoenas; testifying in court and malpractice defense strategies
	Documentation—Patient records; patient follow-up tips; charting pitfalls and dismissing a patient
	Informed consent—The benefits and risks of treatments; informed-consent documentation
	Insurance—Malpractice insurance premiums; shopping for insurance; tail coverage and lowering malpractice insurance rates
	Lawyers—Hiring a malpractice defense attorney; communicating with a plaintiff's attorney
	Litigation—Getting sued for malpractice; settling a case or going to trial and frivolous suits
	Patient confidentiality—Malpractice risks associated with giving information; breach of privacy and HIPAA
	Relations with colleagues—Malpractice liability for referrals; locum tenens; impaired partners; NPs; PAs and call coverage
	Risk management—Spotting potential malpractice hazards and risk assessment