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Practice Peculiarities
Employee Patients, Employee Plaintiffs I once had an employee request that I examine her, including a pelvic exam, as she said her previous physician employer had done. I told her I couldn’t conceive of it and she couldn’t understand why not. A recent guest article in the Kern County Medical Society Bulletin by Daniel K Klingenberger, Esq, […]
Recreating Private Practice
UCDMC – One of America’s Best Hospitals Congratulations to UCD Medical Center for being recognized in six categories in the US News annual survey of America’s Best Hospitals. It’s Hard to Break Old Habits The American Medical Writers Association reports on the problems encountered when attempting to set up scientific communication offices in 12 of the 15 […]
Physicians and Public Opinion
Harris Interactive, best known for the Harris Poll, has a special report in Southern California Physician on “Why Public Opinion on Healthcare Changes.” They suggest that there are at least nine forces that trigger these changes. They recommend that those who want to increase public support for policies or positions they favor, should consider all of them. […]
A huge judgment over end-of-life pain is compounded by bad legislation
A number of County Medical Society Journals have focused on Assembly Bill 487, the law that went into effect on January 1, 2002, in response to a court judgment in an elder-abuse case for $1.5 million. The amount was reduced by the trial judge to $250,000. My barrister friends tell me this means that either […]
On the beginning of life, the right to not be born, assisted suicide and racial profiling in medicine
When is a Human Being a Human Being? In his current editorial, Robert Jacoby, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Writers Association(AMWA) and medical writer at John Hopkins, states the embryonic stem (ES) cell research debate has as its epicenter one fundamental question: When does the physical dimension of a human being begin […]
Cincinnati on the Ohio
Is Medical Care a Right? The Annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) met recently in Cincinnati, across the Ohio River from the Blue Grass country, to discuss whether Medical Care is a Right. Robert Cihak, MD, radiologist, author and columnist of an e-journal, was presiding. Jane Orient, MD, internist, author and Executive […]