Bill of Health
MARCH 15, 2023
By Sarah Gabriele Doctors are now using social media platforms to spread medical knowledge and to interact with the communities that they are actively building. A recent survey showed that almost 1 in 5 Americans now turn to TikTok before their doctor for health advice.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Specifically, they may point out that healthcare providers are generally only liable for medical malpractice if they violate a customary standard of care (that is, if they fail to act as similarly situated providers would in the situation). This argument has two major weaknesses.
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Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Such bad advice, which could get any doctor in legal trouble if disseminated to their patients, may be given to the public at large without fear of sanction. We march into battle with the army we have, and doctors around the world are choosing hydroxychloroquine more than any other solution.
Hall Render
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
deal to buy national physician practice Support grows for association health plans as small employer insurance costs soar Connecticut doctors call on legislature to tackle prior authorization during this year’s session CT hospitals support student-loan forgiveness, debt-free college programs to boost healthcare workforce DC D.C.’s
Drug & Device Law
JUNE 6, 2022
They’re experienced at what they do and aren’t intimidated by plaintiffs’ counsel and their threats of malpractice claims if they don’t testify the way plaintiffs want them to. Further, “both doctors testified that they still prescribe [the drug] for patients with conditions similar to plaintiff’s condition.” Schering Corp. ,
Drug & Device Law
AUGUST 8, 2022
Apparently, a fraudulent foreign-trained “doctor” treated the plaintiffs, none of whom claimed malpractice or any physical injury whatsoever. Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. 23 in its current form.
Drug & Device Law
JUNE 7, 2022
The court rejected plaintiff’s argument that changes in the doctor/patient relationship and increased DTC advertising have eroded the policy justification for the learned intermediary rule. But that does not mean that a doctor “abdicates [his] duty to exercise independent judgment.” In fact, he is legally not allowed to.
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