Podcast appearances and mentions of Gerald B Hickson

Why do certain doctors attract a disproportionate amount of malpractice claims? It's complicated, but the answers are out there. And with the right data and support, high-risk doctors can identify what puts them at risk and course-correct before there's a crisis. Dr. Gerald B. Hickson is the Founding Director of the Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy (CPPA) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Hickson and the CPPA have worked tirelessly to support high-risk physicians. Dr. Hickson and his colleagues at Vanderbilt created the CPPA to make medicine kinder, safe, and more reliable for doctors and patients. Preeminent education and research are powerful crisis deterrents. We spoke to Dr. Hickson at length. Listeners can learn more about the CPPA by visiting the links below. Website: https://www.vumc.org/patient-professional-advocacy/vumc-cppa-home Twitter: VUMC_CPPA

Why do certain doctors attract a disproportionate amount of malpractice claims? It's complicated, but the answers are out there. And with the right data and support, high-risk doctors can identify what puts them at risk and course-correct before there's a crisis. Dr. Gerald B. Hickson is the Founding Director of the Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy (CPPA) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Hickson and the CPPA have worked tirelessly to support high-risk physicians. Dr. Hickson and his colleagues at Vanderbilt created the CPPA to make medicine kinder, safe, and more reliable for doctors and patients. Preeminent education and research are powerful crisis deterrents. We spoke to Dr. Hickson at length. Listeners can learn more about the CPPA by visiting the links below. Website: https://www.vumc.org/patient-professional-advocacy/vumc-cppa-home Twitter: VUMC_CPPA

Dr Gerald B. Hickson, MD is from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he works in the Department of Pediatrics. There, he has worked there since 1982 in multiple capacities. Since 1990, Dr Hickson’s research has focused on why families choose to file suit and how to identify and intervene with high-risk physicians and in 2003, he founded the Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy. Dr Hickson joins Susan Biggar in conversation about the patient safety movement and the important changes he has seen. They discuss how to best identify and intervene with high risk situations and the importance of open disclosure and feedback in achieving safer, more satisfactory outcomes. Dr Hickson talks about the ‘culture of safety’: how to promote it and how to address behaviours that undermine it. Listen to this important conversation that expands the scope of healthcare delivery beyond the practitioners to also include those receiving care, and their families.Please subscribe to Taking Care in your podcast player. You can find more information about Taking Care on the Ahpra website. If you have any feedback for the podcast, please email communications@ahpra.gov.au

Dr Gerald B. Hickson, MD is from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he works in the Department of Pediatrics. There, he has worked there since 1982 in multiple capacities. Since 1990, Dr Hickson's research has focused on why families choose to file suit and how to identify and intervene with high-risk physicians and in 2003, he founded the Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy. Dr Hickson joins Susan Biggar in conversation about the patient safety movement and the important changes he has seen. They discuss how to best identify and intervene with high risk situations and the importance of open disclosure and feedback in achieving safer, more satisfactory outcomes. Dr Hickson talks about the ‘culture of safety': how to promote it and how to address behaviours that undermine it. Listen to this important conversation that expands the scope of healthcare delivery beyond the practitioners to also include those receiving care, and their families. Please subscribe to Taking Care in your podcast player. You can find more information about Taking Care on the Ahpra website. If you have any feedback for the podcast, please email communications@ahpra.gov.au

Physicians who act out cause all sorts of problems. Fortunately, only a few clinicians have behavior problems and in the modern era, bad behaviors are not tolerated. Bad behaviors get reported these days and actions are taken against these sorts of clinicians. Clinicians who act out frequently say they are doing so to protect their patients. But are they? William Cooper, MD, MPH, and Gerald B. Hickson, MD, from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, discuss a study they published in relating bad behaviors to having more complications of surgical care. Related article: Association of Coworker Reports About Unprofessional Behavior by Surgeons With Surgical Complications in Their Patients