Should TikTok Doctors Owe Any Duty of Care Toward Their Followers?
As these accounts proliferate, the line between the roles of doctor and influencer becomes blurred.
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Read more: Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure
Science, law, and the principle of “do not harm” all concur about the path to keeping patients safe from disease and hospitals safe from liability.
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Read more: The Dr. Oz Paradox The Dr. Oz Paradox
Why does the law sanction giving bad advice to one patient, while it permits giving bad advice to millions of YouTube or television viewers?
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Read more: New Data Reignites Concerns over COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in New York State New Data Reignites Concerns over COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in New York State
Concerns over New York State’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic have recently re-emerged in light of a new report and court ruling related to the matter.
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Read more: COVID-19 and Nursing Homes: The New York State Experience COVID-19 and Nursing Homes: The New York State Experience
Questions continue over whether more might have been done to protect patients in nursing homes and other congregate settings in New York State.
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Read more: Finetuning Liability Protections in the COVID-19 Emergency Finetuning Liability Protections in the COVID-19 Emergency
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and many states enacted liability limitations for health care practioners and facilities.
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Read more: How States are Protecting Health Care Providers from Legal Liability in the COVID-19 Pandemic How States are Protecting Health Care Providers from Legal Liability in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Clinicians and policymakers alike are raising the alarm about potential legal liability for following crisis standards of care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read more: Professor: The Law Has No Straight Answer for Our High-Tech Baby Boom Professor: The Law Has No Straight Answer for Our High-Tech Baby Boom
This is an excerpt of an article by Alaina Lancaster that originally appeared on Law.com. Read the full interview here. After thousands of dollars of in vitro fertilization treatments and nine months of pregnancy, a New York couple was forced to give up the twins they birthed. It turns out CHA Fertility Center, the Los…
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Read more: How Medicine Learns About the Law How Medicine Learns About the Law
By Nadia N. Sawicki Many medical providers learn about the law the way kids learn about sex – whispers with friends, internet message boards, and media depictions of the most dramatic and unrealistic kind. And while both medical schools and junior high schools offer some type of formal education, it is quite limited, especially as compared…
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Read more: Using Fear of Lawyers to Train Medical Students is Costing a Lot of Money! Using Fear of Lawyers to Train Medical Students is Costing a Lot of Money!