Malpractice Liability Exposure and the Sports Medicine Team Physician: Caring for Professional Athletes in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, and National Hockey League
Sports medicine specialists caring for elite athletes face potential personal financial risk due to insufficient medicolegal coverage. While coverage may vary among different practice settings including private, academic, or public state institutions, medical malpractice risk is crucial in partnerships between sports franchises, hospitals, players, agents, and physicians to protect sports medicine physicians and offer the highest-quality care.
Authors
- J. Woo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2255-8510)
- Prem N. Ramkumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1704-9156)
- Sayyida Hasan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4879-4247)
- Reena Olsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0012-1481)
- Michael Pang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5619-9344)
Institutions
- Tufts University (US)
- Rush University Medical Center (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Brown University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The American Journal of Sports Medicine
- Published
- 2025-01-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/03635465241306742
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.04