🧑‍⚖️How to NOT get sued for antibiotics

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Here’s today’s legal advice

• 🧑‍⚖️A Cautionary Tale of Clindamycin. How one oral surgeon got sued and the literature on the controversial antibiotic.

• ☕Coffee Break. Random strangers helping your productivity and some endo on a tiger.

• 🍺Trivia Night. Thursday morning trivia to make you 37% better at diagnosing cracked teeth.

While sometimes we make up stories about Michael Jordan loving oral pathology…sometimes we tell real stories to help you in your practice

And this is one of them.

So, this is Karen (*cough* fake name *cough)

And this is the story of how she sued an oral surgeon because of this once very-popular antibiotic.

So she just had #20 extracted and we know two things:

1) The procedure was indicated (non-vital)

2) Dr. Whatley (pictured below) did a very good job.

But the patient had a WEIRD request after an uneventful extraction

The oral surgeon told the patient

• A clindamycin prescription was not indicated, and

• There are dangers with clindamycin use

Unfortunately, the doc gave in to Karen’s pleads and gave her the drug. Spoiler alert: DON’T let patients dictate treatment.

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