When communicating with patients, a physician’s “custom and practice” as to what he or she advises is often an acceptable substitute for granular detail in a chart entry. But when the physician departs from his or her custom and practice, it’s easy for things to go wrong.

Physicians with patients on pain medication regimens are often attuned to signs of drug abuse. Multiple-drug interactions and simple overuse should also be a concern.

There will always be noncompliant patients. Physicians treating those patients need to foster a heightened sense of danger.

The Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP) is proud to partner with the Sierra Sacramento Valley and the Placer-Nevada County Medical Societies in hosting an Anesthesia Risk Management CME dinner program to physicians – at no cost or obligation. This interactive and informative ninety-minute program offers practical tips to help and provide anesthesiologists additional tools in order to increase patient safety and reduce claims. Attendees will learn objectives through the presentation of case studies and statistical data.

CAP today announced that seven years after the release of its highly popular Medicine on Trial, it has published a new second edition as an educational resource for its member physicians.