Drug manufacturers and distributors will now be able to access a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) database that monitors controlled substances from the point of manufacture all the way through to the point of sale (e.g., practitioners, pharmacies, hospitals/clinics).
The appeals to the case, Mitchell v. Shikora et al., center on the question of whether evidence concerning the known risks and complications of a surgical procedure is relevant to the question of negligence.
Practices that don’t have specific cyber insurance often have some limited coverage through their malpractice or general business policies.
Allegations are likely to be that PBMs allowed a greater amount of opioids to be permitted in communities than could be supported based on the legitimate medical needs of the community.
Results showed that the average post-SI incidence rate of harmful events at JMH was 13% lower (estimate=-0.1368, RR-0.8721, P=0.0109) compared to the 2 pre-SI years on record.
It is essential to document warnings, especially significant ones, like this.
Patients, families, clinicians must consider clinical, ethical, legal aspects of VSED to hasten death.
When the defendants moved to have the award reduced to match the cap, the three-judge appellate court panel ruled the cap unconstitutional, saying that it was “arbitrary” and that it denied some victims equal protection.
The case relates to a fatality resulting from injuries that occurred during a high-school football game in Washington State.
Thirty-nine of the 50 states and the District of Columbia have the ‘single-party consent’ rule, meaning that if only one party – the physician or patient – wish to covertly record an encounter then they are legally entitled to do so.
