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OSHA Bloodborne Regulations: Exposure Control Plans

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) obtain your cooperation with their bloodborne regulations by requiring you to use an appropriate “Exposure Control Plan”. They are pre-written plans or templates with blank spaces to fill in what is required, and should be unique to the practice setting. In fact, the CDC website [...]

You’re Invited to a Virtual Mindfulness Group Titled: Simple Practices for Complex Times with Dr. Mark Bertin

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Mindful Practice: When Things Go Wrong: The Hidden Gift of our Imperfections

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Flaws in Clinical Judgment and Communication Gaps Are Leading Factors in Malpractice Cases Closed with Large Payments

Posted by: Sanford Goldberg M.D. and Philip Robbins M.D. Co-Chief Medical Officers for EmPRO Insurance Company EmPRO believes that having an awareness of the lapses that lead to high indemnity payments in malpractice claims can help insured practitioners improve their clinical care of patients and consequently reduce their risk of being [...]

In Spite of Earth: A History of Life – A Virtual Master Class

Join EmPRO for a live virtual Master Class: The History of Life on Earth! In this 45-minute interactive presentation Sean Tvelia, Academic Chair, Professor of Physical Sciences, Suffolk Community College will discuss the extraordinary conditions in which life developed and continued to evolve on our planet and how its development shaped [...]

The Writer’s Studio

EmPRO invites you to join your colleagues in a program run by narrative medicine specialist and endocrinologist, Barbara Hirsch, MD, MS. Allow Barbara and the group to bring the humanities to medicine and see the changing perspective that occurs. The next program is Wednesday, October 6, 2021 from 7:00PM - 8:30PM [...]

OSHA and Air Borne Pathogen Standards

In 1991, OSHA first issued it's standards involving blood borne pathogens. Currently, most healthcare providers are exposed to blood on a daily basis. These standards are distinguished from air borne pathogens. And shockingly, as this is being written, OSHA has not drafted any air borne pathogen standards. We have all gotten [...]

Telehealth: Past, Present, Future – PLAYBACK now available

Empro Insurance Presents “Author in the ZOOM” with World Renowned Master Diagnostician, Pat Croskerry, MD, PhD: The Cognitive Autopsy – PLAYBACK now available

Failure to Diagnose Cancer is a Leading Cause of Malpractice Claims and Payments

Posted by: Sanford Goldberg M.D. and Philip Robbins M.D. Co-Chief Medical Officers for EmPRO Insurance Company EmPRO is a member of the prestigious CRICO Strategies Comparative Benchmarking System (CBS). The CBS database contains over 450,000 medical malpractice cases and includes the in-depth coding and analysis of member companies’ claims. This allows [...]