Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Richard Anderson, MD System errors have a large impact on medical malpractice claims, but did you know they contributed to 30 percent of settled claims? They do, according to a study by one of the largest doctor-run medical malpractice carriers. Dr. Richard Anderson, chairman and chief executive officer of Napa, Calif.-based national malpractice carrier, The Doctors Company, tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen about the kind of errors contributing to settled claims, and ways physicians can avoid them.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Dan Shapiro, PhD Dr. Dan Shapiro, Director of the Medical Humanities Program and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Arizona in Tuscon, Arizona, discusses his book, Delivering Amelia: The Story of a Young Gifted Obstetrician's Mistake and the Psychologist Who Helped Her.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Dan Shapiro, PhD Dr. Dan Shapiro, Director of the Medical Humanities Program and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Arizona, discusses his book: Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love and Beating the Odds.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: David Miller Right now, it’s illegal to use an electronic system to prescribe controlled substances. But as the adoption of electronic prescriptions progresses, the inclusion of controlled substances into e-prescribing becomes inevitable. David Miller, chief security officer for Covisint, a leading software and IT services firm, weighs the advantages and disadvantages of this budding technology with host Susan Dolan, RN.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Mary Naylor, PhD, RN Mary D. Naylor, PhD, RN, is the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and Director of the New Courtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hear Dr. Naylor as she discusses how to prevent patients from landing back in the hospital.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Daniel Palestrant, MD Social networking Web sites may provide isolated physicians a chance to network with other docs far beyond their geography. Those of us who practice clinical medicine know that often what we do in our offices is far ahead of what the published research tell us. How might we harness this power? Sermo’s founder and CEO, Dr. Daniel Palestrant, explains his vision for the future.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Daniel Palestrant, MD Dr. Daniel Palestrant may not be a name that you are familiar with ….. yet. He joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss how he became a physician entrepeneur while still in training.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Godfrey Getz, MD The major cardiovascular diseases have at their core hypertension and atherosclerosis. Both of these are strongly impacted by diet. Dr. Godfrey Getz of the University of Chicago explains the latest research between diet and cardiovascular disease to host Dr. Leslie Lundt.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Daniel Carlat, MD Dr. Claudia Baldassano of University of Penn has said that today’s guest “is a master at making tedious concepts come to life”. For many of us, nothing in medicine is as tedious as drug metabolism. Dr. Daniel Carlat tells host Dr. Leslie Lundt about his latest book, “Drug Metabolism in Psychiatry – A Clinical guide”.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Daniel Carlat, MD Dr. Daniel Carlat has written in a New York Times article called, “Dr. Drug Rep”, that allowing pharmaceutical companies to sponsor medical education leads to many bad things, including biased education, corrupt physicians, and, ultimately, harm to our patients. Host Dr. Leslie Lundt listens to what he has to say.