News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Medical Malpractice"
Artificial intelligence tools in Clinical Neuroradiology: Essential Medico-Legal Aspects
Commercial software based on artificial intelligence (AI) is entering clinical practice in neuroradiology. Consequently, medico-legal aspects of using Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) become increasingly important. These medico-legal issues…
Emergency statutes must be passed to protect doctors and hospitals from potential lawsuits, say Harvard Law professors
State governments must enact emergency immunity statutes to protect doctors and hospitals from potential lawsuits and criminal prosecution during the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Law Professors I. Glenn Cohen ’03 and…
Viewpoint: Potential Legal Liability for Withdrawing or Withholding Ventilators During COVID-19: Assessing the Risks and Identifying Needed Reforms
With an anticipated shortage of ventilators for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), hospitals, physicians, and nurses may have to make an unprecedented decision: should they withdraw or withhold ventilators from…
Protect the Doctors and Nurses Who Are Protecting Us: They need immunity from lawsuits and prosecution for triage decisions.
[...] triage protocols are essential to ensuring that we make it through the impending crisis with the fewest possible deaths. But if these public-health strategies are to succeed, doctors must be…
Can You Sue An Algorithm For Malpractice?
From the article: "What’s in the box? The “black box,” that is. Increasingly, doctors are relying on sophisticated, and at times inscrutable, algorithms to make healthcare…
Losing Embryos, Finding Justice: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Personhood
From the article: On 3 March 2018, a liquid nitrogen storage tank broke down at University Hospitals Fertility Center in Cleveland, Ohio. More than 950 patients lost over 4000 eggs and embryos (also called …
Health Law Workshop: John Tingle
Presentation Presentation now available: "Patient Safety Policy Development in the NHS in England" This presentation is based on a chapter in Global Patient Safety: Law, Policy and Practice, edited by…
A Fear of Lawsuits Really Does Seem to Result in Extra Medical Tests
From the article: Mr. Gruber and Michael D. Frakes, a Duke economist and lawyer, looked at the health care system for active-duty members of the military. Under longstanding law, such…
Defensive Medicine: Evidence from Military Immunity
From the abstract: We estimate the extent of defensive medicine by physicians, embracing the no-liability counterfactual made possible by the structure of liability rules in the Military Heath System. Active-duty…
Medical Errors and the Culture of Medicine: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Panelists Martin Makary, MD, MPH, Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Professor of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Timothy Hofer, MD,…
Health Law Workshop: Kathryn Zeiler
Presentation Topic: "Communication-And-Resolution Programs: The Numbers Don’t Add Up" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact Jennifer…
PFC Spotlight: Academic Fellow Alumnus Michael Frakes
Michael Frakes was an Academic Fellow from 2009-2011, during which time he researched deterrence and medical malpractice law, culminating in a publication in the University of Chicago Law Review. Today,…
Harvard Law Professor: Suing the VA Is Full of Challenges
Those affected by the scandal at Veterans Affairs hospitals across the country could file a class action lawsuit, but such a move also presents "some challenges," says I. Glenn Cohen,…
Accountability in the ACO Structure: Medical professional liability will change at the institutional level as reforms take hold.
[...] As physician employers, ACOs “will need professional liability coverage for the errors of its professional care providers,” said Derek Jones, a principal and consulting actuary at Milliman. In…