How Should Healthcare Professionals React to Disruptive Technology, Like ChatGPT?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has potential to be a powerful ally for healthcare professionals in ensuring the delivery of high-quality care—while also creating potential new patient safety risks. Presented by Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Doctors Company and TDC Group.
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Mar 20, 2019
Study of Malpractice Claims Involving Children
The Doctors Company analyzed 1,215 claims filed on behalf of pediatric patients that closed from 2008 through 2017. The study is based on the claims filed against physicians in 52 specialties and subspecialties and includes an overview of the most common types of claims, expert insights into the specific elements that led to patient injury, and risk mitigation strategies.
Continuing Education Insight
For healthcare professionals, keeping up with the changes and advances in your field is a lifelong challenge. The Doctors Company offers continuing education courses for providers, dentists, nurses, practice managers, advanced practice clinicians, and other staff across a broad range of subjects.
January 27, 2025, Chicago Magazine
Incidental Findings Can Lead to Malpractice Claims
If the ordering practitioner does not follow up, an incidental finding may lead to patient harm and result in a malpractice claim. The Doctors Company has completed an analysis of medical malpractice claims against our members in which an incidental finding was identified as a contributing factor.
October 09, 2025, Medical Economics
AI on Trial: A Conversation With Deepika Srivastava, Chief Operating Officer at The Doctors Company
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way medicine is practiced and raising profound new questions about liability, accountability, and patient safety. Deepika Srivastava, Chief Operating Officer at The Doctors Company, discusses how AI is beginning to influence medical malpractice and why the legal system isn’t yet ready for what’s coming.
October 30, 2025, Medical Economics
AI, Malpractice, and the Future of Physician Liability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering everyday care, raising questions about malpractice. Deepika Srivastava, Chief Operating Officer at The Doctors Company, discusses how AI could redefine the standard of care, what happens when an algorithm contributes to patient harm, and practical steps physicians can take now to protect themselves—including documentation, communication and clear internal policies.
Social Inflation Causes Between $2.4 and $3.5 Billion of All Medical Malpractice Losses, The Doctors Company Study Finds
In the decade ending in 2021, between $2.4 and $3.5 billion, or 8 to 11 percent, of all medical malpractice losses incurred by physician-focused insurers stemmed from social inflation, according to new research from The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer and part of TDC Group.
How Could the Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact Healthcare as a Profession?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has potential to be a powerful ally for healthcare professionals in ensuring the delivery of high-quality care—while also creating potential new patient safety risks. Presented by Erik Brynjolfsson, PhD, Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI).
Video Oct 12, 2022
What Not to Do: Telehealth Lessons Learned (Clinical Considerations)
In this video, created in partnership with Candello, experts discuss what to consider when deciding to use virtual visits, how to handle triage in virtual care, how to ensure accurate diagnoses with telehealth, strategies for providing quality patient care during a virtual visit, developing good web-side manner, and when to convert a virtual visit into an in-person visit.
Quick Check Tools: Improve Your Practice Processes
Our easy-to-use Quick Check tools can help your practice identify processes that need to be updated. Each printable checklist also includes a resource list and contact details for additional guidance.
