The Inaugural Southwick Lecture
Senator George Mitchell - Keynote Speaker

Does the animosity between the legal and medical professions
undermine patient care?

Watch webcast of Senator Mitchell's talk

Watch panel discussion

This first honorary lecture explored the consequences to patient care of the distrust between attorneys and physicians and ways to repair that relationship.

 Participants

Senator George Mitchell, JD, Keynote Speaker
Partner, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary

Brenita Crawford, MHA
Chief Operating Officer, Regional Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee

Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD
President, American Medical Association (2003)

William H. Thompson, JD
Shareholder, Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman

 Acknowledgments

The Center is grateful to the following sponsors for their generous support of this inaugural symposium:

Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman
Founding Sponsor

Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook

Sullivan, Ward, Asher & Patton, P.C.

William H. Thompson, Esq.

President Coleman’s Initiative on Ethics in Public Life

Office of the Vice President for Research

School of Public Health
 

Suggested Reading

Jacobson, PD, Bloche, MG. Improving Relations between Attorneys and Physicians. JAMA. 2005; 294:2083 – 2085.