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Key Considerations for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

Bill of Health

In the legal realm, both privacy and medical malpractice vulnerabilities are of concern. Medical malpractice could occur for two reasons. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Health Pol’y, Law, and Ethics 1 (2023).

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

” Those risks are shown in the second bar chart: over six in ten digital health business lacked coverage for a range of existential risks, including system failure or cyber hacks, technology errors, malpractice cause by incorrect data resulting in bodily injury, and loss or disclosure of personal or sensitive data.

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The Guardians of Professional Knowledge

Bill of Health

Conceptualizing the professions as knowledge communities informs how they are regulated: licensing requirements, unauthorized practice laws, professional malpractice liability, informed consent, fiduciary duties, and the scope of protection for professional advice disseminated between professional and client or patient within the relationship.

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Forced C-Sections: The Legal Battle Over Bodily Autonomy in Childbirth

Bill of Health

Dray later filed a malpractice suit against the hospital and the doctors for pressuring and threatening her into the C-section. However, doctors insisted on surgery due to concerns about fetal complications and the risk of uterine rupture. The doctors overrode Drays refusal and proceeded with the C-section.

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The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden

Bill of Health

The public health malpractice of two successive administrations, and the cant that has propped it up, suggest a polity that is out of moves — or perhaps more accurately, they reveal a polity that wants to appear as if its hands were tied.

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