Last year I was at St. Lukes Hospital in Houston while a member of my family had surgery and recently I was in the same position. We are constantly getting records on behalf of clients and reviewing them. We frequently retain the services on Information technology...
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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...
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...
Coping with the Aftermath of Emergency Room Chao
EMTALA presents an interesting and potentially effective tool for attorneys representing those who are underserved medically. The author, an attorney and medical doctor, is a partner with Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs. The management of the...
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...
Why the Physician/Patient Privilege Is an Oxymoron
At a lecture some years ago, a psychiatrist described one of his patients whose problems were felt to be instructive to the group. To draw a complete picture for the audience, certain physical characteristics were included in the overall description. By the time the...
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...
Finding Sources of Litigation in Breast Cancer Cases
During October 1997 -- breast cancer awareness month -- numerous programs were held by medical centers and women's groups. One of the more interesting was the program supported by the Breast Center at the Monmouth Medical Center. The program was marketed to physicians...
From the desk of Lee S. Goldsmith, M.D., JD
Your Right To Your Information 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...