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Avoiding Liability in Off-Label Prescribing
Off-label prescribing has entered standard treatments and is at the cutting edge of medical innovati...
Dr. MedLaw 
Board-certified radiologist and a malpractice attorney “Dr. MedLaw” covers all things at the intersection of medicine and law.
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Guidelines for Allowing Non-Medical Students to Shadow Your Practice
Q: A patient’s daughter, a high school senior, had accompanied her mother for her semi-annual eye examination. The daughter was very attentive to what I was doing and told me that she would soon be starting a pre-med program in college. She thou
Aug 24, 2023
Dealing With a Sham Peer Review
The term “peer review” embodies what the evaluation of a doctor should be: an assessment by other physicians. However, it can be co-opted by personal grievance or business competition, and so doctors need to be aware of how to safeguard their inte
Jul 20, 2023
Dr. MedLaw Q&A: Ensuring Ethical Consulting Compensation
I was recently contacted about consulting for a medical malpractice law firm. How should I bill for this? Can I set up a retainer?
Jul 11, 2023
Dr. MedLaw Q&A: When It Is Appropriate to Disclose Personal Health Information to Police
Patient vandalized an office after being refused narcotics for an undetectable back injury, saying he couldn’t be turned in because “you can’t tell on a patient.”
Jul 07, 2023
Dr. MedLaw Q&A: Exploring What Constitutes “Treatment” and “Continuous” in Medical Malpractice
“Continuous Treatment” If a patient comes back to see you, does the Statute of Limitations become meaningless?
Jun 13, 2023
Dr. MedLaw: Courts and End-of-Life Issues
A December, 2022 ruling on physician-assisted suicide by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts provided clarifying insight on how judges analyze end-of-life issues.
Jun 08, 2023
Dr. MedLaw Q&A: Limitations of a Follow-Up
I’m still have a lot of loan debt so I’m doing some shifts in an urgicare to help pay that off. I saw a patient yesterday for cramps and vomiting.
May 10, 2023
Dr. MedLaw Q&A: HIPAA Authorization Liability
I’m a physiatrist so a lot of my patients have ongoing lawsuits over slip-and-falls and MVA’s and we get lots of requests for records.
May 04, 2023
Dr. MedLaw Q&A: When to Inform of Potential Malpractice Case
The colonoscopist at a private endoscopy center perforated a patient’s transverse colon. The patient was immediately transferred to our hospital and our on-call surgeon did the repair.
Apr 20, 2023
Dr. MedLaw: Dealing With Reciprocal Effects of a National Practitioner Data Bank Report
The National Practitioner Data Bank was established as a nationwide information resource, intended to prevent a doctor with practice or conduct problems from just moving to another area to conceal those issues.
Mar 21, 2023
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