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Dr. JC is a medical doctor who has a passion for health promotion and education.
Medicine and the Law – Part 2: Medical Malpractice
Continuing on in my series of posts about Medicine and the Law, we've established that there are two elements necessary for a patient-physician relationship to be established -- contract and consent. There must be a written or implied contract in place, and there must be agreement to it on both sides (either written, verbal, or implied through actions). Now we get to the juicy part of the equation -- Medical Malpractice.
Medicine and the Law – Part 1: Contract and Consent
I've decided to go ahead and post a series on Medicine and the Law. One of the things I hear about so often from both sides of the patient-physician relationship is the fear and threat of legal action. Typically physicians are paranoid of being sued. They practice defensive medicine and go out of their way to write copious notes, dictate exhaustive patient summaries and operative reports. For the practicing physician, all the documentation, paperwork, and reporting is simply exhausting. Sometimes all of the documentation takes up way more time and energy than the actual exam or procedure. It is a sad state of affairs when 90% of the time allocated to a patient is dedicated to documentation rather than with actual time with the patient.
Medical Tourism: Pathway to Outsourcing Physician Jobs
There is this booming industry in medicine that more and more people are becoming aware of. It's called Medical Tourism. It doesn't mean that you go around the world touring medical sites. It's actually the concept of people traveling to different countries to have medical procedures done. Perhaps they are seeking a special physician that can do a procedure. Perhaps they are seeking a new procedure that is not yet approved in the U.S. Perhaps the procedure they want is less expensive elsewhere. Sometimes it is just that patients want a vacation in combination with their medical procedure so they will go to a resort island to have the procedure done and get their rehabilitation in a relaxing environment.
March Madness Is Here Again
Can you believe it is March already? Yeah it is that time of the year again when all time stops and amateur basketball is the most important thing in one's life.Unfortunately, for those people in their fourth year of medical school, not only does the NCAA tournament occur in March, but so does match day! This March also marks the one year anniversary of my writing for Brain Blogger. I wanted to say that writing for this blog has been rewarding for myself personally as it has given me time to flesh out my own thoughts, beliefs, and ideas. On occasion I will go back and read some of my posts and inevitably think to myself -- "Did I really write that?!?"
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