This essay explores some counterintuitive propositions to see what they may add to our understanding of the role of doctors and lawyers in health care conflict resolution. The essay first explains what is meant by a fiduciary relationship. It then discusses how taking this fiduciary concept seriously may unsettle part of our conventional views of doctors as healers and lawyers as advocates. Indeed, taking the fiduciary concept seriously may turn these views on their heads. Finally, this essay explores whether viewing doctors as advocates and lawyers as healers, consistent with our core understandings of the professional and ethical responsibilities of practitioners in each profession, might improve the prospects for conflict resolution in h...
As American psychologist Abraham H. Maslow once said, [i]f the only tool you have is a hammer, you ...
The success of health reform under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 will depen...
This Comment will examine the applicability of mediation in the resolution of medical disputes and t...
This essay explores some counterintuitive propositions to see what they may add to our understanding...
This Article critically examines calls by scholars, legislators, and regulators advocating the impos...
Doctors as fiduciaries: a legal construct of the patient-physician relationship Fidelity is the most...
The relations between physicians and lawyers have deteriorated rapidly over the past several decades...
Increasingly law has come to pervade medical practice, and increasingly doctors have come to resent ...
How should we respond to patients who do not wish to take on the responsibility and burdens of makin...
Some physicians are receiving financial incentives for enrolling their patients in clinical studies,...
Heated debate surrounds the question whether the relationship between physician-researcher and patie...
Healthcare delivery in the United States has undergone a complete transformation in the past 75 year...
This Article addresses whether a lawyer\u27s possible duty to inform and advise his client of potent...
Conflict of interest (COI) in medicine is typically taken to be financial in nature: it is often ass...
This article, prepared in the context of a conference at Hofstra in October 2006 ( Biomedical Resear...
As American psychologist Abraham H. Maslow once said, [i]f the only tool you have is a hammer, you ...
The success of health reform under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 will depen...
This Comment will examine the applicability of mediation in the resolution of medical disputes and t...
This essay explores some counterintuitive propositions to see what they may add to our understanding...
This Article critically examines calls by scholars, legislators, and regulators advocating the impos...
Doctors as fiduciaries: a legal construct of the patient-physician relationship Fidelity is the most...
The relations between physicians and lawyers have deteriorated rapidly over the past several decades...
Increasingly law has come to pervade medical practice, and increasingly doctors have come to resent ...
How should we respond to patients who do not wish to take on the responsibility and burdens of makin...
Some physicians are receiving financial incentives for enrolling their patients in clinical studies,...
Heated debate surrounds the question whether the relationship between physician-researcher and patie...
Healthcare delivery in the United States has undergone a complete transformation in the past 75 year...
This Article addresses whether a lawyer\u27s possible duty to inform and advise his client of potent...
Conflict of interest (COI) in medicine is typically taken to be financial in nature: it is often ass...
This article, prepared in the context of a conference at Hofstra in October 2006 ( Biomedical Resear...
As American psychologist Abraham H. Maslow once said, [i]f the only tool you have is a hammer, you ...
The success of health reform under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 will depen...
This Comment will examine the applicability of mediation in the resolution of medical disputes and t...