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The Charted Defense Podcast Welcome to The Charted Defense Podcast — where medicine meets the law. I’m Michael Coleman, MD, a practicing physician and hospital medicine leader, sharing practical lessons from real-world malpractice themes, sepsis workflow failures, abnormal-result follow-up misses, and documentation breakdowns that put patients and clinicians at risk. Each episode turns complex medical-legal issues into clear, actionable takeaways for physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and healthcare leaders. You’ll hear case-based analysis, system-level risk management strategies, and communication frameworks you can apply immediately in clinical practice. If you care about safer care, cleaner documentation, and reducing preventable legal exposure, this show is for you. What you can expect - Medical malpractice case breakdowns in plain language - Clinical communication and handoff failure analysis - Documentation and follow-up syste
Michael hosts The Charted Defense, a health show with 37 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail A college student walks into a community emergency department after a reported fall. The CT shows bilateral frontal hemorrhages. A neurosurgeon directs her care by phone from home — orders are placed, bu
Send us Fan Mail The trial, the verdict, and the lessons. A six-person jury, a two-week trial, a defense verdict on every count, and an appeal that is now pending. How the plaintiff turned vocabulary differences across p
Send us Fan Mail A taxi driver finishes his overnight shift and feels something change. He arrives at a major urban emergency department within minutes of the symptoms beginning. Stroke alert is called. CT is clear. The
Send us Fan Mail The teaching episode. Nine specific moments across this case where a different decision could have changed the outcome — from the PCP's office to the ED triage to the radiologist's read. Each one a small
Send us Fan Mail The deposition story. A single page of the medical record — the page the plaintiff's attorney returned to again and again — became the load-bearing document of the case. How a routine triage note became
Send us Fan Mail A 70-year-old man develops dizziness and difficulty walking. He sees his primary care physician. He's sent to the emergency department. Two hours pass between when the symptoms began and when stroke is f
Send us Fan Mail The legal doctrine that decided this case. When a hospital contracts out its emergency department, can it still be liable for the contractor's care? This episode walks through the appellate ruling — and
Send us Fan Mail The trial story. How a chart built across three encounters by three different emergency physicians becomes plaintiff's exhibit, deposition by deposition. The notes that were thorough. The notes that were
Send us Fan Mail A previously healthy adult traveler presents to a community emergency department with cough, sore throat, headache, and a tight neck. She returns the next morning, and again that same night. Each visit,
Send us Fan Mail A patient presents with fever, headache, and neck stiffness. The physician diagnoses viral syndrome and does not perform a lumbar puncture. The patient deteriorates rapidly. Explores the anchoring bias a
Send us Fan Mail A patient with IV drug use history presents with back pain and fever. The treating physician diagnoses musculoskeletal pain without pursuing emergent spinal imaging. The epidural abscess compresses the s
Send us Fan Mail A retired chiropractor in his sixties pulls off a rural Southern highway with sudden neck pain, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and numbness on one side. He's brought to a community ED, triaged as a mid-acu
Send us Fan Mail Inside the expert witness testimony and trial strategy. An EM physician from a major university who participates in international CPR guideline development. Covers reptile theory, an EMTALA question reso
Send us Fan Mail A middle-aged patient with a history of injection drug use and frequent ED visits arrives complaining of acute leg pain. The provider has seen this patient before. The chart already labels her. The exam
Send us Fan Mail A retired chiropractor in his sixties pulls off a rural Southern highway with sudden neck pain, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and numbness on one side. He's brought to a community ED, triaged as a mid-acu
Send us Fan Mail From bedside to courtroom. The complaint, discovery battles, expert testimony, and the hospital's defense that care met the standard — how a patient's death becomes a legal case. Support the show
Send us Fan Mail You open the chart. The template loads. The neurological exam section already reads "intact." You sign the note and move on. Eighteen months later, a plaintiff's attorney has your note side by side with
Send us Fan Mail A middle aged man calls 911 with chest pain early one morning. This season traces the alleged cascading failures — STEMI transfer delay, helicopter vs. ground transport decision-making, airway cascade fa
Send us Fan Mail A patient walks into a Georgia emergency department with back pain and red-flag neurologic symptoms. Cauda equina syndrome is on the differential — but instead of an emergent MRI, the workup gets punted
Send us Fan Mail Your phone, your EHR, and your badge are all keeping records you never think about. In this episode, we break down how digital evidence — from cell tower pings to audit trails — is quietly becoming the m
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