Dr. MedLaw: Supreme Court Sides With Doctors in Ruling on Controlled Drugs Dispensing
Doctors who treat pain patients have long been concerned over being investigated and prosecuted...
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Doctors who treat pain patients have long been concerned over being investigated and prosecuted...
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This month we are going to look at an issue that is a bit technical, but if you ever find yourself...
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Cyberattacks are a major threat to the healthcare industry and maintaining a powerful...
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Q: All the employed doctors at my hospital, even those who were not up for contract renewal, just...
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Q: I am on an ad hoc committee at my hospital looking into an EMTALA problem that we are trying to...
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Q: I own a small medical building in which my office is located. The problem is that one tenant, a...
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In the United States, patients frequently die under the care of strangers in an impersonal...
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Along with the tremendously high ethical and professional standards placed upon physicians comes...
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A physician’s sworn duty is to care for all of their patients with the goal of alleviating...
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Many physicians are acutely aware that although accidents are a natural element of human nature,...
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Q: I want to change EMR vendors but the current company is holding me up for big fees. How is...
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Q: I’m a pediatrician and my wife is a software designer. We were talking about combining these to...
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Although they rarely occur, wrong-site surgeries are incredibly stressful and damaging events....
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Q: The rule at our ASU is that a patient who received sedation should not drive after discharge,...
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To err is human. Doctors are human. Doctors will therefore err. …and doctors understand this. However, when doctors look at the law, they want to know why their mistakes are called “negligence,” a term that, to them, insults...
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A friend told me that he reduces the taxation of his solo internal medicine practice by paying...
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Informed consent is an essential element of medical care that physicians must not take lightly....
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The Build Back Better Act, H.R. 5376 (BBBA), is a framework intended to set the United States on a...
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Looking back at a year and a half of significant changes to our way of life, it is easy to become...
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The term “captain of the ship” is one of the most misunderstood in medical malpractice law. Most...
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