Doctors’ Rights

  • Read more: Doctors Conducting Peer Review Can Recover Compensatory and Punitive Damages for Confidentiality Violations
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    Doctors Conducting Peer Review Can Recover Compensatory and Punitive Damages for Confidentiality Violations

    By Alex Stein The Supreme Court of New Mexico has recently delivered an important decision protecting peer reviewers’ statutory entitlement to confidentiality. Yedidag v. Roswell Clinic Corp., — P.3d —- (N.M. 2015), 2015 WL 691333. The Court ruled that peer reviewers can sue violators of their confidentiality right and recover compensatory and even punitive damages. This…

  • Read more: No Doctor for the Obese?
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    No Doctor for the Obese?

    By Nir Eyal Yesterday, Boston public radio station WBUR interviewed a Massachusetts primary care physician who refuses to admit new obese patients. She claims that it’s because she lacks proper equipment, but she seems to have mixed motives. Earlier she had admitted that it’s rather because she feels that if they don’t lose the weight, “I’m paying the cost of other people’s…