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Sexual harassment
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
Which physician behaviors and health care workplace environments cross the line into sexual harassment?
Opinion
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Physician-assisted suicide – an update
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
Has opinion among physicians and lawmakers shifted against legalizing physician-assisted suicide?
Opinion
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Failure to diagnose is a continuing challenge
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
What factors are most likely to contribute to diagnosis-related malpractice claims?
Opinion
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Duty vs. confidentiality
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
What role does foreseeability play when a physician knows a patient may be a danger to others?
Opinion
Shinal v. Toms: It’s Now Harder to Get Informed Consent
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
Question: Which of the following statements regarding Shinal v Toms, a recent landmark decision on informed consent, is correct?:A. The case was...
Opinion
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Federal medical tort reform: Has its time come?
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
Three legal relative newcomers – health courts, apology laws, and safe harbors – appear to be taking center stage in any forthcoming federal tort...
Opinion
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Physician liability in opioid deaths
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
What civil and criminal penalties can physicians face when their patients die from opioid overdoses?
Opinion
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The perils of the National Practitioner Data Bank
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- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
What can be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank, and how much impact can those reports have on physicians’ careers?
Opinion
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Determining patients’ decisional capacity
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- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
When do patients no longer have the medical capacity to make their own health care decisions, and when can surrogates make those decisions for...
Opinion
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Update on the False Claims Act
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- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
Battles over implied fraud and competing medical opinions may reshape the risk physicians face in False Claims Act cases.
Opinion
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Update on malpractice trends
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
Are malpractice claims really on the decline? And how much protection do apology laws actually provide physicians?
Article
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EMTALA Part III: Case law
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
This is the third installment of a three-part series. Question: Based on case law, which of the following statements is most appropriate regarding...
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Law & Medicine: How case law shapes EMTALA
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
In the 3 decades since Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, the statute has, as expected, spawned numerous lawsuits.
Article
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EMTALA – statutory law
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
Penalties for EMTALA violations include fines up to $50,000 per violation, and/or nullification of Medicare provider agreements.
Article
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Facing a medical board investigation
- Author:
- S.Y. Tan, MD, JD
What steps should you take when your state medical board requests the medical records of an angry patient who has filed a formal complaint against...