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Scientific Assembly

Track Session

Session: Session 203

Watch a Doctor Get Sued: A Live Medico-Legal Simulation

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
11:10am – 12:00pm ET
Location: Versailles - 2nd Level
CE: 0.75 CME Credit
Risk Management / Patient Safety Recorded Session

    Panel Moderator(s)

  • Michael D. Smith, MD MBA FAAEM

    Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Ochsner Clinical Simulation & Patient Safety Center
    Ochsner Health
    New Orleans, Louisiana

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

    • Panelist(s)

  • MD

    Marilena DiSilvio, JD

    Attorney
    Elk and Elk
    Mayfield Heights, Ohio

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Denise Dickerson, JD (she/her/hers)

    Shareholder
    Sutter O'Connell
    Cleveland, Ohio

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Jeffrey S. Kuo, MD MMM FAAEM (he/him/his)

    System Chair - Patient Flow & EMS, System Medical Director - Emergency Management & Security, System Medical Director - Emergency Medicine Telehealth, Airway Management Physician - New Orleans Saints
    Ochsner Health
    Metairie, Louisiana

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

    • Session Moderator(s)

  • Dillon Warr, MD

    Attending Physician, Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
    Valleywise Health Medical Center/Creighton of Phoenix Emergency Medicine Residency
    Phoenix, Arizona

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Christopher Colbert, DO FAAEM

    Assistant Program Director
    University of Illinois
    Hinsdale , Illinois

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):
Michael D. Smith, MD MBA FAAEM: No financial relationships to disclose
Marilena DiSilvio, JD: No financial relationships to disclose
Denise Dickerson, JD: No financial relationships to disclose
Jeffrey S. Kuo, MD MMM FAAEM: No financial relationships to disclose
Prior to the presentation, we assign a case to an emergency physician and allow the MD to prepare with their defense attorney. On the day of course, we do a simulated deposition in front of a live audience including the defense attorney and a plaintiffs attorney. We then debrief and allow Q&A.

Learning Objectives:

  • Vicariously experience the stress of being deposed.
  • Learn common pitfalls used by plaintiff attorneys when they are deposing physicians.
  • Understand that you can't "win," your case in deposition --- but you can certainly lose it.