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The House Edge: On Gambling And Professional Discipline, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2016

The House Edge: On Gambling And Professional Discipline, Stacey A. Tovino

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On March 26, 2014, the Iowa Supreme Court revoked the license to practice law of Cedar Rapids attorney Susan Hense. Admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1996, Hense subsequently misappropriated $837,000 in client trust funds to feed her addiction to casino gambling. This Article assesses how attorneys like Hense who are addicted to gambling are treated in professional disciplinary actions, including license suspension, revocation, and reinstatement proceedings. Themes that emerge include public misunderstanding of gambling disorder, stigma against individuals with gambling disorder, statutory recognition of substance addictions but not behavioral addictions, and mandatory attendance at religion based fellowship meetings as …


Abortion And Compelled Physician Speech, David Orentlicher Jan 2015

Abortion And Compelled Physician Speech, David Orentlicher

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Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2014

Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino

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Grateful patient fundraising, defined as the solicitation of philanthropic donations by health care providers from current and former patients, raises a number of legal and ethical issues. Elsewhere, I detailed the confidentiality issues raised by the use and disclosure of patient identifiable information by hospital development officers, major gifts officers, institutionally-related foundations, and commercial fundraisers, and proposed corrections to federal health information confidentiality regulations to better balance the competing aims of health care philanthropy and health information confidentiality. In this Article, I analyze several outstanding issues raised by physician involvement in grateful patient fundraising. That is, physicians who solicit philanthropic …


Silence Is Golden . . . Except In Health Care Philanthropy, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2014

Silence Is Golden . . . Except In Health Care Philanthropy, Stacey A. Tovino

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Insights From A National Conference: "Conflicts Of Interest In The Practice Of Medicine", David Orentlicher Jan 2012

Insights From A National Conference: "Conflicts Of Interest In The Practice Of Medicine", David Orentlicher

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Neuroscience And Health Law: An Integrative Approach?, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2009

Neuroscience And Health Law: An Integrative Approach?, Stacey A. Tovino

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Neuroscience is one of the fastest growing scientific fields in terms of the numbers of scientists and the knowledge being gained. In recent years, both the scope of neuroscience and the methodologies employed by nueroscientists have broadly expanded, from biochemical and genetic analysis of individal nerve cells and their molecular constituents, to the recent neuroscientific achievement in the ability of neuroimaging technoloiges, including funtional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to image brain function. Clinicans and scientists use fMRI not only to map sensory, motor, and cognitive function, but also to study the neural correlates of a range of physical and mental …


Watch Out For Whistleblowers, Leslie C. Griffin Apr 2005

Watch Out For Whistleblowers, Leslie C. Griffin

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