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Showing posts with label medical profession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical profession. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Anti-SLAPP protects doctor for reporting patient-doctor's opioid use to physician treatment authority

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Cindy Shebley CC BY 2.0 via Flickr A doctor who prescribed opioids for a fellow doctor and ultimately reported the patient-doctor for possi...
Monday, April 24, 2023

No right to physician aid in dying, Mass. high court holds, rejecting analogy to same-sex marriage right

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In 2017, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and D.C. residents protest to protect "death with dignity" law from congressional med...
Friday, January 27, 2023

We're losing the war on heart disease

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Last week, my wife's life was at risk because we did not understand that women in heart distress do not necessarily experience the sympt...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Lawyers be a-ballin'?

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Canadian lawyers protest legal aid de-funding in 2014 ( Sally T. Buck via Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ). My wife was a legal services attorney ...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Hospital BAC disclosure prompts tort privacy claims

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Photo by Marco Verch ( CC BY 2.0 ) The federal district court in Montana in December refused to dismiss an informational privacy claim ag...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Horrors at Oak Ridge Psychiatric amounted to assault, battery, but lacked intent for IIED, Ontario court rules

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From 1963 to 1988, patients involuntarily committed to the maximum-security Oak Ridge Mental Health Centre at Penetanguishene, Ontario, were...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Doctor's blog briefs COVID-19, medmal, learned intermediary doctrine, and addiction in legal profession

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Like you, likely, I am at home.  And one thing I can tell you about home:  This ain't Rwanda.  Where I was supposed to be.  Apologies in...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

Law student, doctor's blog explores medmal issues

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An alum of my Torts I & II classes and a medical doctor, Joseph Grillo is doing some intriguing blogging at his Medical-Legal Consultin...