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To Disclose or Not to Disclose on Renewal Application. That is the Question.

Physicians regularly complete new and renewal applications for all sorts of things. Medical licenses. Hospital privileges. Employment. In-network status with insurance carriers. Professional liability coverage.   The list is long.  The longer you have been in practice, the more complicated the applications.   The questions cast a wide net. As exemplified in an Ohio Appellate case, Zedaker … Read more

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Unintended Consequences: Getting Burned on Informed Consent Many Years Later

Utah’s new law on informed consent & transgender care for minors may have unintended consequences for surgeons Buyer’s remorse. We’ve all had it. Who hasn’t wanted a do-over?  Assorted states acknowledge it. In North Carolina, certain purchases trigger a “right to cancel.”  There are others.   These made the list because the Attorney General’s office received … Read more

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Physicians and Bankruptcy

America is the land of second chances. Many years ago, if you could not pay your debts, you could be moved to a debtor’s prison. Even in the US.   Many Colonial American jurisdictions established debtors’ prisons using the same models used in Great Britain. James Wilson, a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, spent some … Read more

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Healthgrades is Sued for Labeling a Physician as a Criminal

Dr. Hassan A. Saad is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Michigan. This physician shares the same first and last name as another physician, who worked in the same city. This other Dr. Hassan has a different middle initial. His middle initial is “T” and opposed to our protagonist, whose middle initial is “I”.  What a … Read more

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Workarounds to ‘The Dog Ate My Homework’

We live in a world of deadlines. When I was growing up, I learned the maxim, “Failure to properly plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”   Sound familiar?  The excuse “the dog ate my homework” did not work in my childhood home.   If you practice medicine (or any licensed profession … Read more

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