Catherine Miller, RN, JD, Risk Management and Patient Safety Specialist at CAP and Carole A. Lambert, MPA, RN, Vice President of Practice Optimization at CAP sit down to discuss all the aspects that care teams must consider to improve transitions of care. 

To gain a perspective on the need for care, the challenges to accessing and receiving care, and possible ways forward, we spoke with Dr. Roger G. Kathol, president of Cartesian Solutions, Inc.™ in Burnsville, Minnesota.

The physicians we meet, wherever they are in the trajectory of their careers, share perspectives and concerns that are remarkably similar given the diversity of communities we have visited. Physicians, with all their gifts of remarkable intelligence and skill, are human too. They want to get things right, to promote good outcomes, to not just survive but thrive.

A CAP member physician recently called our risk management hotline requesting help with a call from a Washington Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent. The caller demanded that she turn herself in to local law enforcement for writing fraudulent prescriptions and dealing drugs with the Mexican mafia. 

CAP’s next webinar, Good Outcomes in an Era of Tough Choices: Legal Risks and Solutions for Opioid Prescribers, will cover the latest laws and best practices surrounding the opioid crisis, and will help answer the fundamental question: How do I treat patients with compassion and care in a medically sound and legally safe way?  This webinar is presented by Steve Meister, criminal defense lawyer and the owner of Meister Law Offices in Los Angeles, California.