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Risk Management for the Physician

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Risk management is an administrative function for controlling, predicting, and financing losses that cannot be assumed or avoided. In the hospital industry, risk management focuses on predicting the risk of patient harm and injury and implementing measures to prevent future losses from lawsuits against the hospital.

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  1. Michael S. Kaminski MPH
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  2. Jeanne H. Pores MPA
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  3. Ashifa Bhayani RRA
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  4. Joseph A. Pennisi
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Pulmonary Lab, Flushing Medical Center, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  2. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  3. Pulmonary division, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  4. State of New York and Consolidated Edison Corporation, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  5. Flushing Hospital and Medical Center, 4500 Parsons Boulevard, Flushing, NY, 11355, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  6. Department of Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Roger C. Bone MD, FACP, FCCP (The Ralph Crissman Brown Professor and Chairman) (The Ralph Crissman Brown Professor and Chairman)

  7. Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, 2nd and 11th Judicial Districts, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

  8. Pace University, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

  9. 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY, 11435, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

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Kaminski, M.S., Pores, J.H., Bhayani, A., Pennisi, J.A. (1989). Risk Management for the Physician. In: Vevaina, J.R., Bone, R.C., Kassoff, E. (eds) Legal Aspects of Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4534-6_8

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