Law & Medicine
Law & Medicine
Forgoing artificial nutrition and hydration
Law & Medicine
Law & Medicine: Which doctors get sued?
Law & Medicine
Law & Medicine: Health care costs and defensive medicine
How widespread is the practice of defensive medicine among U.S. physicians, and what effect does it have on the nation’s health care costs?
Law & Medicine
Oral contraception and medical liability
Can physicians be held liable for ‘wrongful life’ for prenatal advice or faulty oral contraceptives?
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Law & Medicine: To whom do doctors owe a duty?
Law & Medicine
Midair medical emergencies
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Medicolegal aspects of sleep apnea
Can third parties sue physicians for injuries arising out of failure to diagnose, treat, or warn when patients have obstructive sleep apnea?
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Caps on malpractice damages
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Update on informed consent
A shift toward a patient-oriented requisite standard of disclosure is changing the risk to physicians posed by informed consent.
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Auto accidents in sleepy medical trainees
When sleepy medical residents cause auto accidents after long shifts, can hospitals be found negligent, too?