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Full-Text Articles in Law
Unlimited Medical Liability?, Jessica L. Roberts, Leah R. Fowler, Paul S. Appelbaum
Unlimited Medical Liability?, Jessica L. Roberts, Leah R. Fowler, Paul S. Appelbaum
Emory Law Journal Online
No abstract provided.
The Regulation Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine (Cam) In South Carolina, What Is Happening And What Needs To Change, Anna C. Smith
The Regulation Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine (Cam) In South Carolina, What Is Happening And What Needs To Change, Anna C. Smith
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Termination Of Hospital Medical Staff Privileges For Economic Reasons: An Appeal For Consistency, June D. Zellers, Michael R. Poulin
Termination Of Hospital Medical Staff Privileges For Economic Reasons: An Appeal For Consistency, June D. Zellers, Michael R. Poulin
Maine Law Review
The relationship between physicians and hospitals is undergoing significant change. Historically, a physician maintained a private practice in the community and looked to the local hospital for ancillary support when his or her patients were too ill to remain at home. This community-based physician gained access to the hospital by obtaining medical staff privileges. These privileges allowed the physician to admit patients to the hospital, treat patients while they were there, and use the hospital's staff and equipment. The physician generally enjoyed the use of the privileges throughout his or her active career, losing them only if found incompetent. Today, …
Conant V. Walters: A Misapplication Of Free Speech Rights In The Doctor-Patient Relationship, Katharine M. Mccarthy
Conant V. Walters: A Misapplication Of Free Speech Rights In The Doctor-Patient Relationship, Katharine M. Mccarthy
Maine Law Review
In Conant v. Walters, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit addressed the application of the First Amendment's right of free speech to a federal policy that prohibited the recommendation of medical marijuana by physicians. This class action suit, brought by physicians and severely ill patients, successfully enjoined the federal government from enforcing its policy revoking the federal prescriptive licenses of physicians who recommend or approve of marijuana use by patients suffering from certain severe illnesses. The federal government's policy, issued in 1996 through a statement of Barry McCaffrey, director of the Office of National Drug Control …
The Home-Field Disadvantage: Tort Liability And Immunity For Paid Physicians During Disasters Within The Pacific Northwest Emergency Management Arrangement Member States, Stephen Seely
Seattle University Law Review
This Note identifies how the Pacific Northwest Emergency Management Arrangement member states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington apply tort liability and immunity to medical professionals during times of disaster. This Note also identifies an example statutory scheme that, if enacted, will provide equal protection to all physicians who provide care to disaster victims, regardless of their local or out-of-state status.
Save Thousands Of Lives Every Year: Resuscitate The Peer Review Privilege, Alan G. Williams
Save Thousands Of Lives Every Year: Resuscitate The Peer Review Privilege, Alan G. Williams
Journal of Law and Health
Doctors make mistakes—preventable medical mistakes—that kill or seriously injure patients. The best way to reduce these preventable errors is through a medical peer review process typically referred to as a "morbidity and mortality conference." However, over the past twenty years, federal and state courts, state legislatures, and state voters have effectively gutted the morbidity and mortality conference (M&M) as a remedial and preventative tool, resulting in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths every year. Doctors need our help restoring the effectiveness of M&Ms. Congress has created the means to do so; now, all the courts need do is use it. …
The Treatment For Malpractice – Physician, Enhance Thyself: The Impact Of Neuroenhancements For Medical Malpractice, Harvey L. Fiser
The Treatment For Malpractice – Physician, Enhance Thyself: The Impact Of Neuroenhancements For Medical Malpractice, Harvey L. Fiser
Pace Law Review
This article will introduce some of the issues and offer some possible guidelines which may eventually guide cases of medical malpractice and medical care in the face of neurointerventions. First, I will briefly address the standard of care in medical malpractice cases in general. Second, I will discuss some of the existing and potential physical and neurological enhancements available for physicians. Finally, I will explore how these neurointerventions could alter the standards for medical malpractice for both the enhanced doctors and the entire medical profession.
A Defense Of Physicians’ Gatekeeping Role: Balancing Patients’ Needs With Society’S Interests, Jessica Mantel
A Defense Of Physicians’ Gatekeeping Role: Balancing Patients’ Needs With Society’S Interests, Jessica Mantel
Pepperdine Law Review
Although scholars and policymakers increasingly accept the need to ration health care, physicians doing so at the bedside remains controversial. Underling this debate is how to characterize the duty of care physicians owe their individual patients. Ethically, physicians are under strict fiduciary obligations that require them to give primacy to individual patients' best interests. However, new health care delivery models that hold providers financially accountable for health care costs assign to physicians a gatekeeping role, with physicians obliged to balance individual patients' needs with the competing societal goal of controlling costs. This Article explains that the choice between the traditional …
Note: Calvin V. Chater: The Right To Subpoena The Physician In Ssa Cases: Conflict In The Circuits Over The Interpretation Of 20 C.F.R. 404.950(D)(1), Elliot B. Oppenheim
Note: Calvin V. Chater: The Right To Subpoena The Physician In Ssa Cases: Conflict In The Circuits Over The Interpretation Of 20 C.F.R. 404.950(D)(1), Elliot B. Oppenheim
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
Physician Participation In Executions, The Morality Of Capital Punishment, And The Practical Implications Of Their Relationship, Paul J. Litton
Physician Participation In Executions, The Morality Of Capital Punishment, And The Practical Implications Of Their Relationship, Paul J. Litton
Faculty Publications
Evidence that some executed prisoners suffered excruciating pain has reinvigorated the ethical debate about physician participation in lethal injections. In widely publicized litigation, death row inmates argue that the participation of anesthesiologists in their execution is constitutionally required to minimize the risk of unnecessary suffering. For many years, commentators supported the ethical ban on physician participation reflected in codes of professional medical organizations. However, a recent wave of scholarship concurs with inmate advocates, urging the law to require or at least permit physician participation.
In Defense Of The Professional Standard Of Care: A Response To Carter Williams On "Evidence-Based Medicine", Ann Maclean Massie
In Defense Of The Professional Standard Of Care: A Response To Carter Williams On "Evidence-Based Medicine", Ann Maclean Massie
Ann MacLean Massie
No abstract provided.
A Time To Die?: Deciding The Legality Of Physician-Assisted Suicide, Jennifer Cole Popick
A Time To Die?: Deciding The Legality Of Physician-Assisted Suicide, Jennifer Cole Popick
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Two Kinds Of Statistics, The Kind You Look Up And The Kind You Make Up: A Critical Analysis Of Comparative Provider Statistics And The Doctrine Of Informed Consent, Jennifer Wolfberg
Two Kinds Of Statistics, The Kind You Look Up And The Kind You Make Up: A Critical Analysis Of Comparative Provider Statistics And The Doctrine Of Informed Consent, Jennifer Wolfberg
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Going After The 'Hired Guns': Is Improper Expert Witness Testimony Unprofessional Conduct Or The Negligent Practice Of Medicine?, Jennifer A. Turner
Going After The 'Hired Guns': Is Improper Expert Witness Testimony Unprofessional Conduct Or The Negligent Practice Of Medicine?, Jennifer A. Turner
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Physicians And Safe Harbor Legal Immunity, Thaddeus Pope
Physicians And Safe Harbor Legal Immunity, Thaddeus Pope
Faculty Scholarship
Professor Sandra Johnson has identified what she calls physician’s “bad law” claims. In some circumstances, physicians perceive that there is significant legal risk in doing what they think is clinically appropriate. In response, physicians sometimes take a medically inappropriate course of action, because it appears safer. For example, physicians might feel intimidated by aggressively enforced drug control laws. In response, they may under-treat patients’ pain to avoid perceived (and real) threats of investigation, discipline, or criminal prosecution. In short, well-meaning laws sometimes have the unintended side-effect of incentivizing physicians to do “bad” things.
Johnson identifies three responses to physicians’ “bad …
Insights From A National Conference: "Conflicts Of Interest In The Practice Of Medicine", David Orentlicher
Insights From A National Conference: "Conflicts Of Interest In The Practice Of Medicine", David Orentlicher
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
The Tort Of Betrayal Of Trust, Caroline Forell, Anna Sortun
The Tort Of Betrayal Of Trust, Caroline Forell, Anna Sortun
Caroline A Forell
Fiduciary betrayal is a serious harm. When the fiduciary is a doctor or a lawyer, and the entrustor is a patient or client, this harm frequently goes unremedied. Betrayals arise out of disloyalty and conflicts of interest where the lawyer or doctor puts his or her interest above that of his or her client or patient. It causes dignitary harm that is different from the harm flowing from negligent malpractice. Nevertheless, courts, concerned with overdeterrence, have for the most part refused to allow a separate claim for betrayal. In this Article, we suggest that betrayal deserves a remedy and propose …
Physician-Assisted Suicide In Oregon: A Medical Perspective, Herbert Hendin, Kathleen Foley
Physician-Assisted Suicide In Oregon: A Medical Perspective, Herbert Hendin, Kathleen Foley
Michigan Law Review
This Article examines the Oregon Death with Dignity Act from a medical perspective. Drawing on case studies and information provided by doctors, families, and other care givers, it finds that seemingly reasonable safeguards for the care and protection of terminally ill patients written into the Oregon law are being circumvented. The problem lies primarily with the Oregon Public Health Division ("OPHD"), which is charged with monitoring the law. OPHD does not collect the information it would need to effectively monitor the law and in its actions and publications acts as the defender of the law rather than as the protector …
Doctors & Juries, Philip G. Peters Jr.
Doctors & Juries, Philip G. Peters Jr.
Faculty Publications
Legislation is pending in both houses of Congress to transfer medical malpractice cases from civil juries to administrative health courts. The Institute of Medicine also wants to take malpractice cases away from juries through a system of binding early settlement offers. Each of these proposals is premised on the assumption that juries lack the capacity to resolve medical malpractice disputes fairly. This article evaluates that premise. It collects and synthesizes three decades of empirical research on jury decision-making, updating the seminal review done by Neil Vidmar over a decade ago.Four important findings emerge from the data. First, negligence matters. Plaintiffs …
Evidence-Based Medicine In The Law Beyond Clinical Practice Guidelines: What Effect Will Ebm Have On The Standard Of Care?, Carter L. Williams
Evidence-Based Medicine In The Law Beyond Clinical Practice Guidelines: What Effect Will Ebm Have On The Standard Of Care?, Carter L. Williams
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
In Defense Of The Professional Standard Of Care: A Response To Carter Williams On "Evidence-Based Medicine", Ann Maclean Massie
In Defense Of The Professional Standard Of Care: A Response To Carter Williams On "Evidence-Based Medicine", Ann Maclean Massie
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
You Get What You Pay For: Result-Based Compensation For Health Care, David A. Hyman, Charles Silver
You Get What You Pay For: Result-Based Compensation For Health Care, David A. Hyman, Charles Silver
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Exploitation Of The Elite: A Case For Physician Unionization, Dionne L. Koller
Exploitation Of The Elite: A Case For Physician Unionization, Dionne L. Koller
All Faculty Scholarship
Our intuition tells us that physicians are elites, and therefore they cannot be exploited. Relying on this intuition, we adopt policies which attempt to provide a health care system that gives first-quality care, at the lowest prices, delivered through a “free-market” system. As the key gatekeepers to health care, physicians are thus caught in the middle. Top-notch American health care costs money and for-profit MCOs must watch their bottom line. Rationing, therefore, is key. The issue is, assuming we have decided that free-market health care is the solution, how much should physicians have to sacrifice in the name of the …
Government As God: An Update On Federal Intervention In The Treatment Of Critically Ill Newborns, Dionne L. Koller
Government As God: An Update On Federal Intervention In The Treatment Of Critically Ill Newborns, Dionne L. Koller
All Faculty Scholarship
Whether a severely impaired or critically ill infant should receive lifesaving, and sometimes extraordinary, medical treatment, or be allowed to die, is hotly debated. The issue initially garnered public attention in 1982, when an infant who was born with Down's Syndrome, “Baby Doe,” was allowed to die from a correctable birth defect. Following this, the federal government took a lead role in determining the fate of critically ill newborns. In the meantime, doctors, philosophers, and others have debated whether federal interference in this area is appropriate.
This essay will bring the reader up to date on the “Baby Doe” issue …
Medicine And Human Rights: Reflections On The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Doctors’ Trial, George J. Annas
Medicine And Human Rights: Reflections On The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Doctors’ Trial, George J. Annas
Faculty Scholarship
1996 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the commencement of the trial of Nazi physicians at Nuremberg, a trial that has been variously designated as the "Doctors' Trial" and the "Medical Case." In addition to documenting atrocities committed by physicians and scientists during WWII, the most significant contribution of the trial has come to be known as the "Nuremberg Code," a judicial codification of 10 prerequisites for the moral and legal use of human beings in experiments. Anniversaries provide us with an opportunity to reflect upon the past, but they also ena ble us to renew our efforts to plan for …
Physician-Patient Sexual Contact: The Battle Between The State And The Medical Profession, Tanya J. Dobash
Physician-Patient Sexual Contact: The Battle Between The State And The Medical Profession, Tanya J. Dobash
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Dimarco V. Lynch Homes-Chester County, Inc.: How Far Should West Virginia Go In Extension Of Physician Liability For Transmission Of Communicable Disease, Rebecca Coffield Moore
Dimarco V. Lynch Homes-Chester County, Inc.: How Far Should West Virginia Go In Extension Of Physician Liability For Transmission Of Communicable Disease, Rebecca Coffield Moore
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Hospital Liability For Defamation Of Character During The Peer Review Process: Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones, But Words May Cost Me My Job
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Standard Of Admissibility Of A Physician's Expert Testimony In A Chiropractor Malpractice Action, Susan M. Hobson
The Standard Of Admissibility Of A Physician's Expert Testimony In A Chiropractor Malpractice Action, Susan M. Hobson
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Health Care Quality Improvement Act Of 1986 And Its Impact On Hospital Law, Mark A. Colantonio
The Health Care Quality Improvement Act Of 1986 And Its Impact On Hospital Law, Mark A. Colantonio
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.