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Being sued in rural practice? A perspective from the USA
Author(s) -
BUSHY ANGELINE,
RAUH J RANDALL
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
australian journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.48
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1584
pISSN - 1038-5282
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1584.1993.tb00093.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , socioeconomic status , rural area , rural community , health care , dimension (graph theory) , medicine , family medicine , nursing , political science , sociology , law , socioeconomics , environmental health , population , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , pure mathematics
Information about the human dimension of medical litigation, better known as being sued, is sparse, particularly as it relates to physicians who arc in rural practice in the USA. Stemming from demographic, cultural and socioeconomic factors, physician‐community dynamics in rural areas differ from those in more populated settings. Those dynamics probably are similar in rural communities worldwide. This article focuses on the impact of litigation on rural physicians who practise in the USA. However, the information may also be applicable to physicians in other countries, in this case Australia. The information herein is based on the literature, observing and talking with rural physicians and other health care providers who have been involved in some way with the legal or court systems, interviews with lawyers, personal experiences while living and working in rural environments, as well as having served as expert witnesses for cases involving rural health care providers.