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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.
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S8E1 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 —…
S7E2 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…
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…
S6E3 Nine Decision Points | Case 6 episode 3
Send us Fan Mail The teaching episode. Nine specific moments across this case where a different decision could have changed the outcome — from the PCP's office to the ED triage to the radiologist's…
S6E2 Page 334 | On The Record | Case 6 Episode 2
Send us Fan Mail The deposition story. A single page of the medical record — the page the plaintiff's attorney returned to again and again — became the load-bearing document of the case. How a…
S6E1 Two Hours - Case 6 | Episode 1
Send us Fan MailA 70-year-old man develops dizziness and difficulty walking. He sees his primary care physician. He's sent to the emergency department. Two hours pass between when the symptoms began…
S5E3 Inherent Function
Send us Fan MailThe legal doctrine that decided this case. When a hospital contracts out its emergency department, can it still be liable for the contractor's care? This episode walks through the…
S5E2 What the Chart Couldn't Defend
Send us Fan Mail The trial story. How a chart built across three encounters by three different emergency physicians becomes plaintiff's exhibit, deposition by deposition. The notes that were…
S5E1 Three Visits: The Patient's Story
Send us Fan Mail A previously healthy adult traveler presents to a community emergency department with cough, sore throat, headache, and a tight neck. She returns the next morning, and again that…
The Exam You Can't Trust
Send us Fan MailA patient presents with fever, headache, and neck stiffness. The physician diagnoses viral syndrome and does not perform a lumbar puncture. The patient deteriorates rapidly. Explores…
The Back Pain You Cannot Afford to Miss
Send us Fan MailA patient with IV drug use history presents with back pain and fever. The treating physician diagnoses musculoskeletal pain without pursuing emergent spinal imaging. The epidural…
The Eleven-Second Attestation — When a Stroke Looks Like a Migraine and the Chart Tells the Whole Story
Send us Fan MailA retired chiropractor in his sixties pulls off a rural Southern highway with sudden neck pain, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and numbness on one side. He's brought to a community ED,…
S4E3 Case 4 Episode 3 | The Experts
Send us Fan MailInside the expert witness testimony and trial strategy. An EM physician from a major university who participates in international CPR guideline development. Covers reptile theory, an…
S1E5 Drug-Seeking | Cognitive Autopsy Case 5
Send us Fan Mail A middle-aged patient with a history of injection drug use and frequent ED visits arrives complaining of acute leg pain. The provider has seen this patient before. The chart already…
The Eleven-Second Attestation — When a Stroke Looks Like a Migraine and the Chart Tells the Whole Story
Send us Fan MailA retired chiropractor in his sixties pulls off a rural Southern highway with sudden neck pain, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and numbness on one side. He's brought to a community ED,…
S4E2 The Lawsuit
Send us Fan MailFrom bedside to courtroom. The complaint, discovery battles, expert testimony, and the hospital's defense that care met the standard — how a patient's death becomes a legal…
The Template Will Get You — When "Neurological Exam Intact" Is a Click, Not a Conclusion
Send us Fan MailYou open the chart. The template loads. The neurological exam section already reads "intact." You sign the note and move on. Eighteen months later, a plaintiff's attorney has your…
S4E1 Case 4 Episode 1 | The Patient
Send us Fan MailA middle aged man calls 911 with chest pain early one morning. This season traces the alleged cascading failures — STEMI transfer delay, helicopter vs. ground transport…
The Outpatient MRI Trap
Send us Fan MailA patient walks into a Georgia emergency department with back pain and red-flag neurologic symptoms. Cauda equina syndrome is on the differential — but instead of an emergent MRI, the…
The Cell Tower Ping and Your Defense
Send us Fan MailYour phone, your EHR, and your badge are all keeping records you never think about. In this episode, we break down how digital evidence — from cell tower pings to audit trails — is…
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The Charted Defense has published 37 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Medicine.
The Charted Defense is currently highly active with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 36m.
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