Law & Medicine
Law & Medicine
Medical errors and the law
Law & Medicine
Law & Medicine: Locality rule
How much influence do local care standards have in medical liability cases?
Law & Medicine
Dispensing with expert testimony
Do patient plaintiffs need expert witnesses to prove medical negligence in malpractice lawsuits?
Medical Verdicts
Echocardiogram goes unread ... Call to help line is too late
Echocardiograms were done, but who was reading them? A 67-year-old man had been under the care of his primary care physician for aortic stenosis....
Law & Medicine
Forgoing artificial nutrition and hydration
Law & Medicine
Law & Medicine: Which doctors get sued?
Law & Medicine
Law & Medicine: Health care costs and defensive medicine
How widespread is the practice of defensive medicine among U.S. physicians, and what effect does it have on the nation’s health care costs?
Law & Medicine
Oral contraception and medical liability
Can physicians be held liable for ‘wrongful life’ for prenatal advice or faulty oral contraceptives?