Having the type of practice that we do, often representing patients who wish to sue physicians and at the same time representing physicians for a wide variety of situations a question that is often asked is as above: How do you choose a physician? The glib answer is a...
Year: 2015
How Law Ignores Medicine
A recent headline in these pages reported a Supreme Court decision as "Curtailing the Right to Counsel: Hospital Resident Can Be Fired Without a Lawyer, Poritz Court Rules." This decision follows a long line of cases in which this Court and others have avoided...
Lung Cancer Screening
Over the years our office has handled many cases relating to the failure to diagnose lung cancer and therefore institute early treatment so that the individual could survive. Because of the nature of some of the lung cancers early diagnosis does not always mean a cure...
Navigating the Credentials Maze
The author, an attorney and medical doctor, is a partner with Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs. When one considers whether or not an individual is "credentialed" one often considers the background and training of a physician and not those who are...
Nursing Home Abuse Part 1
The latest form of Nursing Home Abuse are attempts by the nursing home to seize resident's assets. This is a new form of earlier actions. The first case we saw related to a nursing home accepting a sum from a widow for lifetime care. This sum under their current rates...
Our Clients are Not Stupid!!!
The arrogance of some medical professionals never ceases to amaze me. The manner in which they interact and treat patients is for some professionals a exhibit of their attitude that I know everything and do not have to explain anything to these people. The attitude...
Regulating in the Age of Telemedicine
The author, an attorney and medical doctor, is a partner with Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs. As medical practice has evolved over the last 50 years, we have seen great changes in the manner in which treatment has been rendered. The general...
Science Races Ahead of the Law in Genetic Testing
The author, an attorney and medical doctor, is a partner with Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs. Medical science is advancing rapidly in the field of genetics. Watson's and Crick's Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gene strands in the form of a...
The Games Insurers and Providers Play
In the HMO era, patients are giving up choice but still are being saddled with the bills The author, an attorney and medical doctor, practices law as a partner in Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs. Over the past three years our office has seen a...
Vaccination and Injection Nightmares
Vaccines by and large are beneficial and in many cases are required. I personally have had multiple vaccines and have had my children vaccinated. During the course of my practice of law I have seen Polio disappear, no Small Pox, and until recently the absence of...