--- title: Professional Liability Advocate | Health Care description: Health Care | Wilson Elser’s Professional Liability & Services attorneys provide clients and other interested parties with informed perspectives. --- # Professional Liability Advocate Select Category 1040 3 dimensional 3D 3D printing Accountants Accounting Accounting Fraud Accounting IT Risks admission of fault admission of liability adverse outcome Advertising Affidavit of Merit apology statute Architects & Engineers Attorneys communication resolution program Coronavirus COVID-19 Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Design Professionals DNA DOJ Investigation Results e-Discovery Health Care Insurance medical malpractice Posts about: ## Health Care [adverse outcome,](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/adverse-outcome) [admission of liability,](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/admission-of-liability) [admission of fault,](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/admission-of-fault) [Health Care,](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/health-care) [communication resolution program,](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/communication-resolution-program) [apology statute](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/apology-statute) ### [You Had Me at “I’m Sorry”: The Impact of Physicians’ Apologies on Medical Malpractice Litigation](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/2018/11/you-had-me-at-im-sorry-the-impact-of-physicians-apologies-on-medical-malpractice-litigation) Nov 6, 2018 9:36:55 AM ![](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/image-2-320x213.jpg?width=347&height=231&name=image-2-320x213.jpg) Physicians typically recall, with stunning clarity, the moment a patient’s treatment went wrong.  Following an adverse event, physicians often are tormented by competing desires to apologize and instincts to forge ahead without acknowledgement. A patient’s decision to file a malpractice action may be triggered by the physician’s response to a problem − or lack thereof. [*The Washington Post*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/should-hospitals--and-doctors--apologize-for-medical-mistakes/2017/03/10/1cad035a-fd20-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html?utm_term=.89ac15f302a5) highlighted contrasting tales of medical errors in which two patients suffered devastating consequences during surgery. Frustrated by a “white wall of silence” preventing her health care providers from articulating more than “’things didn’t go well,’” the first patient desperately committed to finding truth at all costs. In stark contrast, following his surgeon’s immediate explanation and apology for an error that rendered the second patient quadriplegic, the patient engaged in productive discussions with risk managers. The patient’s needs were met and his attorneys negotiated a confidential settlement without litigation. ![Steven L. Young](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/hs-fs/hubfs/young_s_thumb.jpg?width=45&name=young_s_thumb.jpg) [Steven L. Young](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/author/steven-l-young) [Read More](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/2018/11/you-had-me-at-im-sorry-the-impact-of-physicians-apologies-on-medical-malpractice-litigation) [Health Care](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/health-care) ### [Ding Dong the Arbitration Ban Is Dead!](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/2017/06/ding-dong-the-arbitration-ban-is-dead) Jun 20, 2017 12:18:46 PM ![](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/170620-Professional-Liability-Blog-Arbitration-1.jpg?width=300&height=200&name=170620-Professional-Liability-Blog-Arbitration-1.jpg)         I vividly recall attending the Bronx Bar Association Dinner last fall when it was announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would ban pre-dispute arbitration provisions in nursing home admission agreements as of November 28, 2016. This news was relayed to me by a Bronx Supreme Court judge who had denied my very first motion to compel arbitration under such a provision. That denial ultimately was reversed on appeal. ![Lori R. Semlies](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/hs-fs/hubfs/semlies_l_thumb.jpg?width=45&name=semlies_l_thumb.jpg) [Lori R. Semlies](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/author/lori-r-semlies) [Read More](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/2017/06/ding-dong-the-arbitration-ban-is-dead) [3D,](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/3d) [DNA,](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/dna) [3D printing,](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/3d-printing) [Health Care,](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/health-care) [3 dimensional](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/tag/3-dimensional) ### [3D Printing in Medicine – Now?](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/2015/02/3d-printing-in-medicine-now) Feb 12, 2015 3:30:23 AM [![3D printing head](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/517320917-300x201-1.jpg?width=300&height=201&name=517320917-300x201-1.jpg)](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/517320917-1.jpg) Advances in medical technology have made it possible to interpret x-rays from half way around the world, perform surgery through robots and diagnose dermatological conditions via Skype. Today we are on the cusp of further developments that will allow medical technicians to use 3D printers to generate medical devices, prosthetic limbs, and body parts and organs. While the technology is moving forward rapidly, the societal, ethical and legal debates are only beginning and will need to catch up quickly. Additives manufacturing or process, a.k.a. 3D printing, provides a method for an object designed on a computer to be “printed” in plastic in a three-dimensional form. I read about this technology in a *New York Times* **[story](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/fashion/the-rise-of-3-d-printed-guns.html)** about a new way to manufacture guns to get them past airport security. While this concept is certainly scary, there are obvious potential benefits from this technology in many fields, including the possibility of one of the greatest impacts on the medical community in history. ![Lori R. Semlies](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/hs-fs/hubfs/semlies_l_thumb.jpg?width=45&name=semlies_l_thumb.jpg) [Lori R. Semlies](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/author/lori-r-semlies) [Read More](https://wilsonelser-20963532.hs-sites.com/professional-liability-advocate/2015/02/3d-printing-in-medicine-now)