Dr. Sara C. Charles
Retired Psychiatrist and Professor Emerita
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Sara C. Charles, MD is a psychiatrist and professor emerita at the UIC medical school in Chicago.
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Episode # 2 • 09 May 2019
First Steps: You‘ve Been Served
In the second episode of Doctors and Litigation: The L Word, we discuss the very first steps in litigation, starting with when you are given notice of a medical malpractice lawsuit. Experts Dr. Sara Charles, Dr. Ilene Brenner, and Dr. Louise Andrew lend their expertise; physician voices describe their experiences.
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Sara C. Charles, MD, is a psychiatrist and professor emerita at the UIC medical school in Chicago. In 1976, Dr. Charles endured a six week trial for medical malpractice in federal court which resulted in a defense verdict. The experience of the trial so profoundly affected her that she began to study the mental, emotional and physical effects of malpractice litigation on physician defendants. The research she published into the 1980s and 90s is still relied on today by experts in physician wellness. Dr. Charles also co-authored two books: Defendant, A Psychiatrist on Trial for Medical Malpractice (written with her husband, Dr. Eugene Kennedy), and Adverse Events, Stress and Litigation (written with her dear friend, attorney Paul Frisch).
Dr. Charles is now retired from active practice but remains engaged in promoting the wellness of all healthcare professionals who become involved in malpractice litigation, including being the principal founding member of this website.
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