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Nov 26, 2019
How Healthcare’s Transformation Affects Physicians and Patients
Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, Chairman and CEO, The Doctors Company
Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company, discusses some of the most pressing issues facing providers today, including rising healthcare spending and hospital mergers.

February 14, 2023, Business Insurance
California Med Mal Cap Increase May Have Wider Influence
Deepika Srivastava, Executive Vice President of Medical Professional Liability and Shared Services, The Doctors Company and TDC Group​, provides commentary on the increase to California's cap on medical malpractice awards that went in effect in January of this year.

Scott Ruthstrom
Scott Ruthstrom is COO of FDA Services in Tallahassee, Florida. He has served the insurance needs of Florida's dentists for 19 years.

Professional Education
Delayed Diagnosis of Malignancy: Case Review for Advanced Practice Clinicians
In reviewing closed malpractice claims, The Doctors Company identified delayed diagnosis of a malignancy as a reoccurring problem. The following highlights the importance of recognizing a spinal abnormality and recommending further follow up of a lesion seen on imaging. Contributing factors include misinterpretation of radiologic studies, narrow diagnostic focus, lack of communication, and failure to establish a differential diagnosis.

Video Jun 25, 2020

How Can AI Reduce Misdiagnosis?
Eric Topol, MD, founder and director of The Scripps Research Translational Institute and author of Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, explores how artificial intelligence (AI) might be used to reduce misdiagnoses. This is the second in a series on AI in medicine that Dr. Topol has done in conjunction with The Doctors Company.

Video Jun 25, 2020

How Does AI Reflect Human Biases and Impact Inequalities?
Biases can emerge when coding and testing artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. Eric Topol, MD, founder and director of The Scripps Research Translational Institute and author of “Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again,” addresses how we must deal with these biases to make sure the problem of inequalities are not worsened, but improved, with AI.

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