The Charted Defense

About The Charted Defense

The Charted Defense Podcast Welcome to The Charted Defense Podcast — where medicine meets the law. I’m Michael Coleman, MD, a practicing physician and hospital medicine leader, sharing practical lessons from real-world malpractice themes, sepsis workflow failures, abnormal-result follow-up misses, and documentation breakdowns that put patients and clinicians at risk. Each episode turns complex medical-legal issues into clear, actionable takeaways for physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and healthcare leaders. You’ll hear case-based analysis, system-level risk management strategies, and communication frameworks you can apply immediately in clinical practice. If you care about safer care, cleaner documentation, and reducing preventable legal exposure, this show is for you. What you can expect - Medical malpractice case breakdowns in plain language - Clinical communication and handoff failure analysis - Documentation and follow-up systems that hold up under scrutiny - Practical physician checklists for day-to-day risk reduction Disclaimer: This podcast is for education and commentary only. It is not medical or legal advice and does not create a physician-patient or attorney-client relationship.

Publisher

Michael

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Feb 2026

Latest episode

18 May 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

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   18 May 2026

   No Note, No Defense | Case 8

   Send us Fan Mail A college student walks into a community emergency department after a reported fall. The CT shows bilateral frontal hemorrhages. A neurosurgeon directs her care by phone from home — orders are placed, but no narrative note explains the reasoning. Over the next thirty hours, the patient deteriorates through documented changes that no single provider connects. By the time decompressive surgery begins, it is near midnight on hospital day two. A diagnosis that was visible o...

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   16 May 2026

   The Closing Window: The Trial and the Lessons | Case 7 Episode 2

   Send us Fan Mail The trial, the verdict, and the lessons. A six-person jury, a two-week trial, a defense verdict on every count, and an appeal that is now pending. How the plaintiff turned vocabulary differences across providers into an argument. How the defense turned timestamps into a defense. And what every hospitalist and emergency physician should write into a chart the next time a patient says "I don't know" to a treatment with a closing window. Support the show

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   14 May 2026

   The Closing Window: The Patient's Story | Case 7 Episode 1

   Send us Fan Mail A taxi driver finishes his overnight shift and feels something change. He arrives at a major urban emergency department within minutes of the symptoms beginning. Stroke alert is called. CT is clear. The team offers the clot-dissolving medication — and then offers it again, and again, as the window narrows. The patient never says no. He never says yes. The clinical story of an undecided patient, a closing window, and a chart written by four providers who each saw the sam...

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