Medicolegal Issues
Clinical Review
Telemedicine: Navigating legal issues
Some legal concerns and caveats of using telemedicine, as well as a prediction for the future of virtual health care
In the...
Medicolegal Issues
The apology in medicine—yes, no, or maybe?
The ethics of, the laws behind, and the effective apology
Medicolegal Issues
ObGyn malpractice liability risk: 2020 developments and probabilities
Paid medical malpractice claims have trended downward in recent decades. Why?
Medicolegal Issues
Medical malpractice: Its evolution to today’s risk of the “big verdict”
Those who practice unreasonably risky medicine are few and far between, but they drive up medical malpractice claims paid as well as insurance...
Medicolegal Issues
What every ObGyn should know about Supreme Court rulings in the recent term
How has the Supreme Court decided cases involving restrictions on abortion, reimbursements for service for Medicare patients, the...
Opinion
Legal duty to nonpatients: Driving accidents
A doctor’s legal duty may be extended to individuals other than patients in limited circumstances.
Medicolegal Issues
The mesh mess, enmeshed in controversy
Beginning in the late 1990s, the US Food and Drug Administration cleared more than 150 devices using surgical mesh for...
From the Editor
Good news for ObGyns: Medical liability claims resulting in payment are decreasing!
Not as good news: Claims settling for a payment of greater than $1 million are increasing
Medical professional liability...
Medicolegal Issues
Your 15-year-old patient requests an IUD without parental knowledge
The dilemmas of adolescent consent
Medicolegal Issues
Woman loses hands and feet after cystectomy
Woman loses hands and feet after cystectomy: $109M award
On November 1, a 45-year-old woman underwent laparoscopic excision of a benign...
Medicolegal Issues
Abortion, the travel ban, and other top Supreme Court rulings affecting your practice
Many decisions made by SCOTUS in the 2017–2018 term concern you and your patients. With Justice Kennedy retired, and his often deciding vote in 5-...