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Preventing Frivolous Lawsuits and Frivolous Testimony
on Your Career In Healthcare
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Every year, 8-10% of doctors will be sued for malpractice. Many physicians who have been sued or watched a colleague go through litigation respond with defensive medicine, which some recent studies estimate costs the healthcare system as much as $350 billion dollars a year. Most solutions to this problem would involve changes at the federal legislative level. But host Shane Jackson's guest, board certified neurosurgeon and JD, Dr. Jeffrey Segal, talks about the experience of being sued, and his expertise in the areas of defensive medicine, frivolous lawsuits, frivolous testimony, and non-legislative solutions to these problems.
R. Shane Jackson is executive vice president of Jackson Healthcare, a provider of healthcare information technology, staffing and resources, and he is both president and CEO of LocumTenens.com, a full-service locum tenens recruiting agency. At Jackson Healthcare, Mr. Jackson is responsible for overseeing all investments, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for the company. He also oversaw the start-up in 2009 of AdvancedPractice.com, a full-service recruiting agency specializing in placing nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Mr. Jackson previously served as president of Patient Placement Systems, a healthcare technology company providing software for referring and placing patients that require care after leaving the hospital. In 2000, he co-founded and acted as president of NextStart Capital, where he oversaw and directed numerous fundraising and acquisition transactions. Mr. Jackson earned an MBA, with honors, from Emory University, where he was one of a distinguished group of students selected for the institution's accelerated three-semester degree program. He also holds a BBA from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. Mr. Jackson was named one of Atlanta's "Top 40 Under 40" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in 2008. He also serves as board chair for Mission Predisan, a Christian, not-for-profit healthcare organization that provides health and educational services to the people of eastern Honduras through over 40,000 patient contacts annually.
Dr. Jeffrey Segal is a board-certified neurosurgeon and founder and CEO of Medical Justice, a membership-based organization focused on deterring frivolous malpractice claims and Internet defamation, and implementation of legal strategies on behalf of its members who find themselves victims of a lawsuit. Medical Justice operates in all 50 states. Dr. Segal holds a BA from the University of Texas and an MD from the Baylor College of Medicine, where he earned Phi Beta Kappa and AOA Medical Honor Society recognition. He completed his neurosurgical residency at Baylor College of Medicine and continued as a spinal surgery fellow at the University of South Florida School of Medicine. Dr. Segal also earned a JD with highest honors from Concord Law School, based in Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and American College of Legal Medicine and a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the North American Spine Society. Dr. Segal was a founder and served as CEO of DarPharma, Inc, a biotechnology company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, focused on discovering and developing first-of-class pharmaceuticals for a variety of neuro-psychiatric disorders.
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