Notes from a Plaintiff’s Attorney: Medicolegal Issues in Treating Minors – Part 2
We continue with our series of general educational articles penned by one attorney, an MD, JD, giving you a view of the world through a malpractice plaintiff attorney’s eyes. This attorney is a seasoned veteran. The series includes a number of pearls on how to … Read more
Notes from a Plaintiff’s Attorney: Medicolegal Issues in Treating Minors – Part 1
We continue with our series of general educational articles penned by one attorney, an MD, JD, giving you a view of the world through a malpractice plaintiff attorney’s eyes. This attorney is a seasoned veteran. The series includes a number of pearls on how to … Read more
Notes From a Plaintiff’s Attorney: Medical Malpractice Versus Criminal Negligence
We continue with our series of general educational articles penned by one attorney, an MD, JD, giving you a view of the world through a malpractice plaintiff attorney’s eyes. This attorney is a seasoned veteran. The series includes a number of pearls on how to … Read more
Notes From a Plaintiff’s Attorney: Avoiding Liability Involving Autopsies
We continue with our series of articles penned by one attorney, an MD, JD, giving you a view of the world through a malpractice plaintiff attorney’s eyes. In this article, the author addresses “Avoiding liability involving autopsies.” This attorney is a seasoned veteran. The series … Read more
Notes From a Plaintiff’s Attorney: Legal Issues When Patients Offer You a Gift
We continue with our series of general educational articles penned by one attorney, an MD, JD, giving you a view of the world through a malpractice plaintiff attorney’s eyes. This attorney is a seasoned veteran. The series includes a number of pearls on how to … Read more
Jim Morrison Had a Will When He Died. Do You?
The other night, I was channel surfing and started watching a documentary on Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors. He died at the age of 27 in a Paris hotel room. No autopsy was performed. Morrison struggled with alcohol abuse. Many accounts noted … Read more
Hepatitis C Drug Pricing – Let the Games Begin
Gilead Sciences had a banner year. Its blockbuster drug to cure hepatitis C, Sovaldi, had sales of $8.5 billion through third quarter this year. This is the most successful pharmaceutical launch ever. The retail cost for Sovaldi is $84,000 for a 12 week regimen – … Read more
Shotgun Law-Suits: Coming to California in 2015
California implemented substantive tort reform in the 1970s. The cap on non-economic damages (pain and suffering) has held firm at $250,000 since. And, compared to the rest of the country, professional liability premiums in California have remained “reasonable.” Last year, enterprising lawyers spearheaded a … Read more
Health Sharing Ministries – An Alternative to Traditional Expensive Health Insurance
Many Americans purchase individual policies from health insurance carriers. Since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, the marketplace for such policies has changed. If you purchased an individual policy issued before 2010, and you maintained that policy in place, you are “grandfathered in.” You … Read more
Senator (Dr.) Tom Coburn and Sham “Peer Review”
60 Minutes recently featured a story on Senator Tom Coburn. He’s an ob-gyn family physician from Oklahoma who also delivered babies. He vowed to serve only two terms. He intended to be a citizen-legislator and return to full-time medical practice upon retirement from the Senate.
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