Browsing: Medicine & the Law

Ginsburg’s death throws an already chaotic general election campaign during a pandemic into more turmoil. But in the longer term, her absence from the bench could accelerate a trend underway to get cases to the Supreme Court toward invalidating the ACA and rolling back reproductive freedoms for women.

As hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients and staff are stretched to their limits, electronic medical record (EMR) documentation may suffer as a result of rushed, less detailed and error-prone entries. In the current medical malpractice climate, it is very important to maintain an accurate chart.

The American Medical Association is suing North Dakota to block two abortion-related laws, the latest…

The family of a young Navy nurse who died after military doctors allegedly failed to…

By Joseph M. Gorrell Opioid abuse is becoming epidemic in the U.S., with more than…

By Mark F. Seltzer, Esq. In prior articles I have written for Physicians’ News Digest,…

By Victoria H. Johnson and Edward J. Cyran On February 3, 2015, the authority of…

(HealthDay News) — The legal and ethical responsibilities of removing a patient from practice are…

By Dennis Thompson, HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay News) — Nearly all emergency room doctors surveyed order pricey MRIs…

Concierge medicine and medical malpractice:  the two phrases don’t even seem to belong together in…