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Healthcare Risk Management
April 1, 2001

Advice-of-counsel defense not as useful as you might think, or hope, in civil cases

April 1, 2001

Issue Date: April 1, 2001

Table of Contents

Advice-of-counsel defense not as useful as you might think, or hope, in civil cases
Major review set for privacy regs
Reader question: Be a privacy officer only if you have time
IOM says safety rules need major overhaul
Costs soar; some PA OBs are calling it quits
Doctors on-line often, and are wary of privacy
Medication delivery gets a safety boost
Leading medical schools agree on new guidelines
Could intensivists save thousands of lives?
Doctors suspended for operating on wrong side
Legal Review & Commentary: Patient falls in recovery room, landing on just-operated knee: $175,000 verdict
Legal Review & Commentary: Elderly patient falls twice: $670,000 Texas verdict
Legal Review & Commentary: Fall leads to partial paralysis: $4.5 million
Patient Safety Alert Supplement

Financial Disclosure: None of the authors or planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients

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