News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Doctor-patient Relationship"
2019 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Consuming Genetics: Ethical and Legal Considerations of New Technologies
Couldn't join us for the conference? Join the conversation on Twitter with #DTCgenome! And check out many of our speakers' slide presentations and our "Consuming Genetics" blog symposium! The…
Harvard Medical School Annual Bioethics Conference 2019: Controlling Death: The Policies, Practices, and Ethics of Choosing When We Die
Couldn't join us? Check out the Harvard Gazette's coverage of the event! Alvin Powell, "As the end nears, who’s in control?: Center for Bioethics examines physicians…
Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States
Read the full introduction online now! This edited volume stems from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2017 annual conference, which brought together leading experts to reach better understandings of this health…
Provider Consolidation: Implications for Costs and Quality in Health Care Delivery: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
In the last decade, the traditional conception of individual physicians or medical groups has been increasingly replaced by consolidation under academic medical centers and other national or regional administrative organizations.…
Putting Patients at the Center of Research: Opportunities and Challenges for Ethical and Regulatory Oversight
Description Efforts to place the patient at the center of medical research, spurred by the Affordable Care Act’s founding of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, have begun…
2018 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics
Couldn't make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers' slides here! "Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as…
The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the panelist' slide presentations below! Decision aids can be highly-effective tools to promote shared decision making and support patients…
Health Law Workshop: Thaddeus Mason Pope
Presentation Download the Presentation: "From Informed Consent to Shared Decision Making: How Patient Decision Aids Can Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Medical Liability Risk" Background Reading: "Certified Patient Decision Aids:…
Caring for High Need Patients: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
High-need patients require the most attention from health care providers and the health care system, with the top 1% of patients taking up more than 20% of health care expenditures. This panel…
The Ethics of Health Care Reform: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Congress has been locked in debate over the last year about repealing the Affordable Care Act. There have been numerous controversies over the process used, as well as the outcome…
Critical Pathways to Improved Care for Serious Illness: Concluding Convening
Download the Report "Toward a Serious Illness Program Design & Implementation Framework" from the roundtables! Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the slide presentation below! At this…
The Sean Pendergast Show with Dr. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law Professor
Harvard Law Professor [I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)] joins Sean to discuss a study he and a Harvard group did on player safety in the NFL, how the game can…
2017 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Transparency in Health and Health Care: Legal and Ethical Possibilities and Limits
Couldn't attend in person? You can still check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #transparencyinhealth! And check out many of the speakers' slide presentations below! Description Transparency is a…
Harvard Medical School 2017 Bioethics Conference: The Ethics of "Making Babies"
Description The use of assisted reproductive technologies raises far-reaching ethical and legal implications, yet there is little regulatory oversight of these medical procedures in the United States. In a field…
Opiate Regulation Policies: Balancing Pain and Addiction
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the slide presentations below! Description The current opiate epidemic has spurred long-overdue scrutiny on the pharmaceutical production and distribution of opiate…
Promoting Accurate and Useful Public Reporting on Physicians: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Panelists Robert Yeh, MD, Director, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology at BIDMC; Medical Director of Trial Design, Harvard Clinical Research Institute Thomas Lee,…
Critical Pathways to Improved Care for Serious Illness
This discussion continued at a second roundtable event on June 23, 2017. Learn more on the website! Download the Report "Toward a Serious Illness Program Design & Implementation Framework" from the two…
Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
Couldn't make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers' slides as well as the Health Affairs blog symposium! Description The Fifth Annual Health Law Year in…
Senate committee calls for ban on surgeons conducting simultaneous operations
From the article: A powerful Senate committee wants all hospitals to explicitly ban surgeons from overseeing two simultaneous operations, weighing in on a controversy that has roiled Massachusetts General Hospital…
Call for Abstracts: The Ethics of “Making Babies”, Harvard Medical School
The use of assisted reproductive technologies raises far-reaching ethical and legal implications, yet there is little regulatory oversight of these medical procedures in the United States. In a field marked…
Conflict of interest for NFL doctors to report to teams: Harvard study
From the article: The doctors who patrol the sidelines of NFL games to assess whether injured players can safely return to the field should report to the league and players'…
Harvard study: NFL should end doctor-team relationships
From the article: A study conducted by Harvard Law School recommended that any medical personnel treating NFL players should stop reporting to team management or coaches. The two-year study by…
Harvard study on NFL player safety calls for outside doctors
From the article: Doctors who decide whether an NFL player is healthy enough to go into the game shouldn’t be paid by the teams that have a stake…
Harvard Study on NFL Player Safety Calls for Outside Doctors
From the article: Doctors who decide whether an NFL player is healthy enough to go into the game shouldn't be paid by the teams that have a stake in…
Harvard Releases Player Health Recommendations That The NFL Will Likely Ignore
From the article: Harvard University wants the NFL, the NFLPA, and everyone complicit in the NFL industrial complex—all the way down to media and fans—to take…
Study: NFL should break ties between doctors, teams
From the article: Medical personnel caring for NFL players should no longer report to team management or coaches, according to a Harvard Law School report published Thursday. The recommendation comes…
NFL doctors should not report to teams, Harvard study recommends
From the article: A new report from Harvard Law School proposes drastic changes in the way health care is administered in the NFL, urging the nation’s most popular…
When NFL Calls the Doctor
The Boston Globe limits non-subscribers to five free articles per month. Harvard affiliates may view the full text via Hollis+. From the article: FROM MAJOR media outlets to federal research…
NFL doctors’ conflicts of interest could endanger players, report says
From the article: Doctors that work for professional football teams have conflicts of interest that could jeopardize players’ health, according to a report by Harvard researchers. The report released…
Book Launch: Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics
In November 2016, Johns Hopkins University Press published Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics, co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen, Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Christopher…
Religion, Medicine, and Law: Can Current Conflicts Be Healed?: HLS Dean Martha Minow to Deliver 2016 George W. Gay Lecture
2016 George W. Gay Lecture Religion, Medicine, and Law: Can Current Conflicts Be Healed? Martha Minow Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Thursday, November 3, 2016, 4:30 …
The 21st-Century Advanced Illness Care Team: How Team-based Care is Moving Medicine Beyond the Clinic into the Home and Community
Care for advanced illness is moving beyond the hospital and physician office and into the home and community. Addressing the needs of the individual with advanced illness increasingly requires an…
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Abstract of the Introduction: This introductory chapter to the edited volume Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics (I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Christopher T. Robertson, eds.) introduces the…
Concurrent Surgeries: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues
Couldn't attend the event? Check out selected speakers' slide presentations! Concurrent, or overlapping, surgeries involve the simultaneous scheduling of substantial portions of two or more surgeries under the supervision…
Should doctors have the legal right to refuse care?
From the article: It’s best for patients and for physicians for people to get care from clinicians that willingly provide it, said Holly Fernandez Lynch, a bioethics researcher…
Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen Joins National Academy of Sciences Committee: Cohen and HMS Center for Bioethics Director Robert Truog to Advise on Issues in Organ Donor Intervention Research
I. Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and Robert Truog, Director of the Harvard Medical School Center…
PFC Spotlight: Student Fellow Alumnus Neel Shah
Dr. Neel Shah was a Student Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year, while in his third year at Harvard Medical School. Then Academic Fellow and now Faculty Director I. Glenn…
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) Launches Service Affiliate C-TAC Innovations,: Which Includes Respecting Choices®
The Coalition to Transform Care (C-TAC) is the Petrie-Flom Center's partner in the Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy, launched in March 2016. La Crosse, WI - C-TAC expands…
The Ethical Duty to Know: The Tragic Case of Facilitated Communication for Autism
Event Description Our speakers will review and discuss the history of a technique called Facilitated Communication, purportedly used to communicate with individuals with severe autism, developmental delay, or brain injuries.…
Aligning Policy and People: Why the Time is Right to Transform Advanced Care
Couldn't join us in person? Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom and @CTACorg are live-tweeting using #POAC #advancedcare Description This conference was the inaugural event of the Project on…
Radical Redesign of Health Care and Its Implications for Policy: A Lecture by Donald Berwick, MD, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2010-2011)
Special Lecture and Reception to Open ASLME’s 39th Annual Health Law Professors Conference This event was free and open to the public. Opening Lecture and Reception hosted by…
Review: I Glenn Cohen, Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics, Oxford University
From the review: Glenn Cohen’s Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics offers a thorough examination of the growing practice of medical tourism, the legal regulations governing…
From Medical Experimentation to Non-Medical Experimentation: What Can and Cannot be Learned from Medicine as to the Ethics of Legal and Other Non-Medical Experiments?
First published in 1974, Charles Fried's Medical Experimentation is a classic statement of the moral relationship between doctor and patient, as expressed within the concept of personal care. This concept…
Harvard Medical School’s 2016 Bioethics Conference: Social Justice and Ethics Committees in Health Care: Core to our Mission or None of our Business?
Couldn't make it to the conference? Join the conversation on Twitter using #HMSABC! Description This multidisciplinary program was co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and…
The Limits to Consumerism in Health Care: A Lecture by Mary Anne Bobinski
Couldn't attend the event? Check out some of our speakers' slide presentations! Description It is often said that health care has moved from paternalism, in the form of &ldquo…
Deception in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures
Event Description Neurologists who treat epilepsy face substantial difficulty distinguishing "true" seizures caused by abnormal electrical discharges from seizures that are caused by psychological factors (psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, or PNES).…
Neuroethics Seminar: Busting Clots on Your Behalf?: The Ethics of Presumed Consent to Thrombolytics in Acute Stroke
Event Description You've just suffered a large stroke, and are unable to communicate. Your doctor in the ER wants to give you a thrombolytic ("clot-busting") drug. The drug will…
2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and Health in America
Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom #lawreligionhealth And check out many of the speakers' slide presentations below! Conference Description Religion and medicine have historically gone hand in hand, but increasingly…
After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar's, What Is God's?
Couldn't join us in person? Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom #lawreligionhealth Pre-Conference Session As prelude to the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Law, Religion, and Health in America,…
ReSourcing Big Data: A Symposium and Collaboration Opportunity
March 23: Symposium 9:00am-5:00pm Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Harvard Medical School Extant data is an inexhaustible resource that is not yet very well understood and is underutilized. The focus…
Health Law Workshop: Nadia Sawicki
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Modernizing Informed Consent: Expanding the Boundaries of Materiality" About the Presenter Nadia A. Sawicki is Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.…
Houston doctor sued for trading prescriptions for sex
[...] Legal experts who specialize in medical ethics said the allegations and actions captured on film were "egregious." Medical standards prohibit doctors from engaging in sexual relationships with patients. "This seems…
Some Insurance Companies Ask Their Customers to Cross the Border for Care: Is the practice going to spread?
Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen has co-authored a new piece in New Republic on the practice adopted by some insurance companies of sending clients across the border for less expensive…
What Ethicists Should Know about the Law
On Thursday, June 19, Petrie-Flom Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch will speak on "What Ethicists Should Know about the Law" as part of Harvard Clinical Bioethics, a course led by Robert…
Doctors pushed to reject role in executions
Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss his recent opinion piece in JAMA, coauthored with Robert D. Truog and Mark A. Rockoff (both of…
Direct-to-Patient Laboratory Test Reporting: Balancing Access With Effective Clinical Communication
In February 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a landmark ruling allowing patients direct access to completed medical laboratory reports. The ruling took effect April 7, 2014, and gives…
Doctors assist in executions despite ethics rules
[...] A group of legal experts called the Death Penalty Committee of the Constitution Project recently recommended that doctors or other medical personnel supervise all medical aspects of executions, even when…
Physicians, Medical Ethics, and Execution by Lethal Injection
Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen has coauthored a new opinion piece now available through JAMA. From the article: In an opinion dissenting from a Supreme Court decision to deny…
2014 Annual Conference: Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy
Couldn't join us in person at Harvard Law School? Join the conversation on Twitter using #BELHP2014! We also liveblogged the full event at Bill of Health throughout the conference…
An Empirical Method for Materiality: Would Conflict of Interest Disclosures Change Patient Decisions?
Abstract: The law has long been concerned with the agency problems that arise when advisors, such as attorneys or physicians, put themselves in financial relationships that create conflicts of interest.…
HLS Event Opens Dialogue on Role of Race in Healthcare
Harvard Crimson coverage of the Petrie-Flom Center's September 17, 2013, panel discussion, "Patient Discrimination against Medical Personnel," featuring Kimani Paul-Emile of Fordham Law School discussing her article in the UCLA Law…
Patient Discrimination against Medical Personnel
We don't stand for doctors discriminating against patients on the basis of race, but what about when the tables are turned? At this event, Kimani Paul-Emile of Fordham Law…
Revising the Requirement of Informed Consent in an Era of Privatization and Managed Care
We had a discussion with Daniel Sperling, Petrie-Flom Center Short-Term Visiting Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, Health Law, and Health Policy, The Federmann School of Public Policy & Government…
Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care
On the occasion of publication of a new book on physician conscience clauses written by Holly Fernandez Lynch, this panel examined the legal and ethical aspects of the current debates…