White and Williams Healthcare Talks

Dentistry Talks: Dental Industry and Health in America

Kate Woods, Counsel in the Healthcare Group, speaks with Dr. Marcy Borofsky, dentist, serial entrepreneur and dental industry thought leader, and Chris Davis, Vice President of Ancillary Services at Capital BlueCross. They discuss dental services, the correlation between dental health and positive medical outcomes, and where the American dental industry is headed from a business and health insurance perspective.

Doc, You’re Addicted (to prescribing): Going Opioid Free in the ED

Kevin Cottone, Chair of the Healthcare Group, speaks with Dr. Philippe de Kerillis, an emergency medicine physician, about addictive medications prescribed to relieve patients' pain. Opioids provide physicians with an easy, fast and effective way of treating even the most severe types of pain and they have come to use them essentially automatically. The after-effects of this go-to, addict-like prescribing have contributed to the ever-growing opioid epidemic in America.

Patient Care of Constitutional Proportions: Exposure to Civil Rights Litigation

Kim Kocher and Geoff Sasso discuss circumstances involving law enforcement or other authorities where private healthcare providers may become subject to constitutional mandates.

To Err is Human, to Admit is Divine: Public Disclosure of Medical Errors

Andrew Susko speaks with Karen Fiumara of Brigham and Women's Hospital where Karen is the Director of Patient Safety. Andy and Karen discuss Brigham and Women’s Safety Matters blog, where they have taken transparency to a whole new level.

Crisis Communications in an Attention Deficit Age

Don Ladd, Partner in the Healthcare Group interviews Chris Lukach, President of Anne Klein Communications Group. Chris specializes in crisis communications in the healthcare industry. Don and Chris discuss Crisis Communications for Healthcare Systems during the “attention deficit age”.