A recent article in the New York Times raised the question of a patient's right to obtain copies of their own medical records and the difficulty in doing so. Representing patients we have experienced the same frustration. It would appear that everyone can get...
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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...
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...
Dealing with Infection as a Complication of Medical Care
The author, an attorney and medical doctor, is a partner with Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs. A sore throat, a urinary tract infection, a prescription for antibiotics and a cure. That is often the mentality with which we approach the minor...
Give It Time–Your Condition Will Improve
We have heard clients tell us that their doctor told then over and over again that they should have patience and with time their condition would improve and it didn't and they waited and waited and finally went to see someone else who said: "You should have come to...
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...
How Recent Changes Affect Management of the Case
The author, an attorney and medical doctor, is a partner with Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs. Case selection in the professional negligence area is crucial. Physicians will often have the right to consent to any potential settlement. Therefore,...
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...
How do you choose a physician?
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...
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...