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Inside Medical Malpractice

Chris Rokosh, President Connect Medical Legal Experts Inc.

75 episodes

1 month ago

Send us a text In the latest episode of the award-winning podcast Inside Medical Malpractice, host Chris Rokosh continues to examine leaders in the world of patient safety with a riveting interview with Michael Wong, JD. Listen to the powerful story behind Michael’s transformation from a successful defense attorney to a leading patient safety advocate. Driven by a promise made to the grieving mother of a young woman who died from opioid-induced respiratory depression while using a Patient Con...

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Send us a text In the latest episode of the award-winning podcast Inside Medical Malpractice, host Chris Rokosh continues to examine leaders in the world of patient safety with a riveting interview with Michael Wong, JD. Listen to the powerful story behind Michael’s transformation from a successful defense attorney to a leading patient safety advocate. Driven by a promise made to the grieving mother of a young woman who died from opioid-induced respiratory depression while using a Patient Con...

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Inside Medical Malpractice

"A Promise to a Mother: Michael Wong's Mission to Improve Patient Safety"

Send us a text In the latest episode of the award-winning podcast Inside Medical Malpractice, host Chris Rokosh continues to examine leaders in the world of patient safety with a riveting interview with Michael Wong, JD. Listen to the powerful story behind Michael’s transformation from a successful defense attorney to a leading patient safety advocate. Driven by a promise made to the grieving mother of a young woman who died from opioid-induced respiratory depression while using a Patient Con...

9 months ago

53 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

Part 2 of The Unforgettable Story of BLEED OUT with Steve and Margo Burrows

Send us a text This month on Inside Medical Malpractice, join us for Part 2 of the powerful story behind the HBO documentary BLEED OUT, featuring director Steve Burrows and producer Margo Burrows. In our first episode, we explored the shocking outcome of Steve’s mom’s hip replacement surgery, which tragically left her in a coma. After a nearly decade-long fight for her life, Judy passed away on January 30, 2020. But her legacy lives on. Judie’s story has sparked a movement for change, h...

11 months ago

54 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

The Unforgettable Story of BLEED OUT with Steve and Margo Burrows - Part 1

Send us a text This month on Inside Medical Malpractice, Part 1 of the unforgettable story behind the HBO documentary BLEED OUT, featuring director Steve Burrows and producer Margo Burrows. What started as a simple fall from a bike and a routine hip replacement for Steve’s mother Judie quickly turned into a nightmare, leaving her in a coma with permanent brain damage. But BLEED OUT goes far beyond one family’s tragedy—Steve and Margo take us on a shocking journey into the hidden risks w...

11 months ago

57 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

Two Perspectives, Endless Impact (Part 2) with RaDonda Vaught and Leilani Schweitzer

Send us a text Inside Medical Malpractice is back with Part 2 of ‘Two Perspectives, Endless Impact’ featuring RaDonda Vaught and Leilani Schweitzer. In the first episode, we explored the patient safety landscape, the journey towards safer healthcare, the significant challenges we face, and how patients and families can become effective advocates for their own care. We also examined the need for cultural shifts and the role of technology in healthcare. In this amazing episode, Leilani an...

1 year ago

1 hour 7 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

Two Perspectives, Endless Impact (Part 1) with RaDonda Vaught and Leilani Schweitzer

Send us a text In the first episode of Season 5 of Inside Medical Malpractice Chris Rokosh brings together two remarkable repeat guests: RaDonda Vaught, a former Tennessee Registered Nurse whose medication error led to a patient's death, and Leilani Schweitzer, a mother who endured the devastating loss of her child due to a nurse's error. These unimaginable events could have not only shattered their lives but turned them into adversaries. Yet here they are, not as enemies, not destroyed, but ...

1 year ago

1 hour 10 minutes

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Best of Inside Medical Malpractice - Part 3

Send us a text This month on ‘Inside Medical Malpractice’, the third in our ‘best of the best’ podcast series! Chris Rokosh ends almost every episode with the question “What is the most important thing you’d like doctors, nurses, lawyers, and the public to know about medical malpractice?” The answers are as different as our guests’ unique perspectives….but always astute, insightful, and thought provoking. This episode includes a doctor, a mother who lost her son due to a medical error a...

1 year ago

56 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

Learn More About Lawyer Sonia Nijjar

Send us a text In this short, but highly personal episode, lawyer Sonia Nijjar tells us how she spends her time when she’s not working, the challenge of Toronto winters, her life as a curious, independent child, her favorite foods, her all time favorite show, her greatest joy (her son!) and so much more. Learn what this intelligent, articulate lawyer would love to do if she weren’t lawyering. Her strategy for happiness? The balance of “not letting any part of me become all o...

1 year ago

21 minutes

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Trauma Informed Lawyering, Part 3, with Lawyer Sonia Nijjar

Send us a text This month, on Inside Medical Malpractice, part three of a 4-part series on Trauma Informed Lawyering. Listen in as lawyer Sonia Nijjar, associate lawyer and director of business development and knowledge management at Neinstein Personal Injury Law Firm in Toronto tells us how dealing with medical malpractice clients at a very difficult time in their lives affect her. Knowing how very wrong things can go in healthcare led to a hypervigilance during her own pregnancy and o...

1 year ago

1 hour 21 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

SOGC Guideline No. 441 Update: Antenatal Fetal Health Surveillance with co-author Dr. Sharon Dore

Send us a text This informative presentation features Dr. Sharon Dore, principal author, and Clinical Associate Professor at McMaster University. The goal of Guideline No. 441 is the early identification of potential fetal decompensation, allowing for interventions that support fetal well-being, or expedite delivery. Changes around assessment of fundal height, fetal movement, amniotic fluid measurement and fetal health surveillance affect the nursing and medical standards of care, as well as ...

1 year ago

59 minutes

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Trauma Informed Lawyering (Part 2) with Kara Hardin Former Lawyer, Psychotherapist, Mental Health Educator

Send us a text This month, on Inside Medical Malpractice, part two a 4-part series on Trauma Informed Lawyering. Listen in as Kara Hardin former lawyer, psychotherapist, mental health educator and co-owner of The Practice Lab talks about how our childhood search for safety, security, connection and belonging continue to shape our actions as adults. Learn to notice how and when trauma response shows up and deciding how to move forward with compassion. There’s a fascinating discussion on ...

1 year ago

51 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

Trauma Informed Lawyering (Part 1) with Olivia Scobie RSW, MSW, MA Sociology

Send us a text This month, on Inside Medical Malpractice, the first of a 4 part series on Trauma Informed Lawyering. Whether you’re a lawyer, a healthcare provider, a family who has experienced medical trauma, or someone who knows some who has, I promise there is something valuable here. This series will focus on the personal and vicarious trauma experienced during pregnancy and birth. Listen in as Olivia Scobie, Co-Founder of the Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Training and Registered...

2 years ago

1 hour 29 minutes

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Learn More About Olivia Scobie

Send us a text In this short, but personal episode, Olivia Scobie offers fun and surprising insights into her pastimes, favourite food at an Egyptian brunch, the very particular music she dances to, the TV show “Naked and Afraid” and the alternate career path she might have chosen. Olivia shares two strategies for happiness (first of all, don’t focus on happiness) and offers her younger self some really heartfelt advice. Who is it that influenced Olivia the most and what do people must ...

2 years ago

15 minutes

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Nurse on Trial. RaDonda Vaught Part 2. In Her Own Words.

Send us a text Here it is! Part 2 of the open and honest conversation with former Tennessee RN RaDonda Vaught. On March 25, 2022, a jury found RaDonda guilty of criminally negligent homicide for her part in a fatal medication error at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center. If you haven’t heard part one of this conversation, go back and listen. It opens on the fateful day RaDonda accidently injected a paralyzing drug into Charlene Murphey and ends with her tearful meeting of M...

2 years ago

1 hour 28 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

A Fatal Medication Error in Tennessee. An Interview with RN RaDonda Vaught. Part 1.

Send us a text On this episode of ‘Inside Medical Malpractice’, an interview like you’ve never heard before. Listen in as Chris Rokosh talks to former Registered Nurse RaDonda Vaught. On March 25, 2022, a jury found RaDonda guilty of criminally negligent homicide for her part in a fatal medication error at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Criminal prosecution of a nurse is rare, but it happened. And, when things go wrong, it’s easier to talk about a ba...

2 years ago

1 hour 9 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

Unsafe or Improper Use of Medical Equipment with Lawyer Ray Wagner K.C.

Send us a text This episode of ‘Inside Medical Malpractice’ is the fourth in a series exploring the top 5 issues in medical malpractice: Assessment, Medication Errors, Communication, Unsafe Use of Equipment and Infection Control and Infection Control. Nova Scotia Lawyer Ray Wagner tackles the fascinating subject of Equipment Errors, which can result in individual malpractice cases or class action lawsuits. Specialized equipment is used all through the spectrum of healthcare delive...

2 years ago

1 hour 35 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

Learn More About Lawyer Ray Wagner K.C.

Send us a text In this brief, but personal episode of ‘Inside Medical Malpractice’ Nova Scotia lawyer Ray Wagner talks about his day-to-day life, his busy mind, and the honourable motivation behind everything he does. He shares how his lifetime love of the nature, and the great outdoors provides joy and distraction from the hard work of running his own firm, and the surprising alternate career path he might have chosen if he weren’t a lawyer. Learn about Ray’s strategy for success, the ...

2 years ago

43 minutes

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Communication Errors in Health Care - What Doctors Say, What Patients Hear with Dr. Danielle Ofri MD PHD

Send us a text This month, Inside Medical Malpractice returns focus to one of the 5 top issues in malpractice litigation: communication. Listen as repeat guest Dr. Danielle Ofri MD, PhD ,one of the most thought provoking and influential voices in healthcare today, discusses her book ‘What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear’. Dr. Ofri says that the doctor patient interview remains the single most powerful diagnostic tool in medicine. But what patients say and what doctors hear are oft...

2 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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A Medical Malpractice Lawyer Has Another Baby - Maia Tomljanovic of Cuming & Gillespie

Send us a text The Holidays are almost here! So, this month on ‘Inside Medical Malpractice’ we’re taking a break from talking about the 5 most common litigation issues, to bring you a story about the birth of a beautiful baby boy. In this episode, Chris Rokosh welcomes back Maia Tomljanovic. Her 2020 podcast ‘A Medical Malpractice Lawyer Has a Baby’ was, and still is, one of the top 5 downloaded episodes of all time. It’s not only a great story with a happy ending, but a personal,...

2 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

Medication Errors and Malpractice Cases. A Conversation with Lawyer Paul Cahill

Send us a text This episode of ‘Inside Medical Malpractice’ is the second in a five-part series exploring top issues in medical malpractice: Assessment, Medication Errors, Communication, Infection Control and Unsafe Use of Equipment. Repeat guest Paul Cahill tackles the tough subject of Medication Errors, which are so pervasive they make up 3 of the 15 “Never Events’ in healthcare. There are 10 ‘rights’ to medication administration which are considered basic knowledge for al...

3 years ago

1 hour 20 minutes

Inside Medical Malpractice

Assessment Errors. Never Get Complacent. A Case Study with Lawyer Richard Halpern

Send us a text This episode of ‘Inside Medical Malpractice’ is the first of a five-part series exploring some of the top issues in malpractice; Assessment, Medication Errors, Communication, Infection Control and Unsafe Use of Equipment. Repeat guest Richard Halpern tackles the topic of Assessment, a skill considered fundamental for healthcare providers and a critical element of patient safety. Many malpractice cases include allegations that assessments weren’t completed ofte...

3 years ago

1 hour 14 minutes