Sunday, July 27, 2008

All hospitals have to pull their weight on uncompensated care

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Tim Walters filed this op-ed piece Saturday in the Cleveland Plain Dealer : All hospitals have to pull their weight on uncompensated care . ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

5th Circuit's decision in Poliner is out

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Total win for Presbyterian/THR/ medical-staff docs. HCQIA immunity for money damages held to apply to emergency suspension decisions during...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors’ Fees

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Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors’ Fees That's the headline in this morning's New York Times ' story about health plans (inc...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Making Malpractice a Criminal Matter

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The Wall Street Journal 's Law Blog has an entry today on a criminal case brought against a physician at the Harvard School of Public H...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

The vaccine-autism debate: a lecture

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From Mary Holland at NYU comes notice of this lecture: THE VACCINE-AUTISM DEBATE:WHY WON'T IT GO AWAY? David Kirby, AuthorEvidence of H...
Saturday, May 31, 2008

Med mal premiums in Mass., 1975-2005

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Marc Rodwin , one of the most innovative and consistently interesting health law scholars around, has published (with others) in the May/Jun...

American College of Physicians: E-Health Recommendations

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The ACP's new report, E-Health and Its Impact on Medical Practice , is presented on their news page . The challenge of moving physician...

Two Versions of End-of-Life Care

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The New York Times had an interesting article Friday ( In New York City, Two Versions of End-of-Life Care ) on variations in end-of-life car...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Cash Before Chemo

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The Wall Street Journal ran a chilling Page One story yesterday: Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough (link may require paid subscriptio...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

PBS Frontline: "Sick Around the World"

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This Tuesday, "Frontline" takes a look at the U.S. health care system by comparing what we have against other countries who manage...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Some basic health-reform lessons

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Paul Krugman's excellent op-ed yesterday -- Health Care Horror Stories - New York Times -- ought to be required reading across the coun...
Monday, April 07, 2008

More medical records abuses

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It seems that UCLA Medical Center had a serial HIPAA violator on its payroll (until he or she was fired last year for checking out Britney S...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Law review call for papers: "Preparing for a phamaceutical Response to Pandemic Influenza"

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Seton Hall Law Review Symposium Preparing for a Pharmaceutical Response to Pandemic Influenza Co-sponsored by the Health Law & Policy Pr...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

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In my Law, Literature and Medicine class , the poem "Gaudeamus Igitur" by John Stone -- eminent cardiologist and medical educato...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Are antibiotics futile for nursing home patients with advanced dementia?

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Today's New York Times has a piece about a recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine in which the authors question the use ...
Monday, March 03, 2008

Location, location, location.

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It's the punchline to an old joke, but this time it's deadly serious. According to a recent article in Pediatrics (summary; abstrac...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Donation after cardiac death and the LA story

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The papers are all over yesterday's story about the prosecution of a young surgeon in Los Angeles who is accused of hastening a patient...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Organ donation, transplant discussed on NPR

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Weekend Edition - Sunday had a very fine segment this morning on organ donation. Given what they were trying to do with this piece, there ...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

Human experimentation research request

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From Jim DuBois, PhD, DSc, Mäder Endowed Professor, Department Chair and Center Director, Center for Health Care Ethics & Becky Volpe, G...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Medical Futility Blog

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I don't know how I missed it, but here (better late than never) is a link to Prof. Thad Pope 's estimable Medical Futility Blog , w...