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Behind the Knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery

from leaders in the field. Welcome to another episode behind the knife So we're continuing our series on

medical malpractice and we're very excited to have Laura Beals our guest. Miss Beal has

more than 20 years of experience as a health care journalist and most recently

developed a very interesting and

alarming malpractice case went into this on the Dr death podcast which is a

fantastic podcast if anybody hasn't listened to it. This is a story of a

neurosurgeon who was tried and

convicted in criminal courts because of some operative complications.

Laura's here to discuss with us what you learned from this case and talk to us a

little bit about physician peer reporting.

Thank you for joining us, Ms. Beale.

My pleasure to be here.

So we like to start all our podcast with just a little bit of background of who you are where you're from you can tell us a

little bit about your background and and your experience in health care

journalism and then you know how did you get involved in this case and how did you

get interested in doing this podcast?

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