Health Care Law

As a healthcare provider, you need to allow your patients to exercise their informed consent by providing all the required information. This way, they will know whether they want or do not want to participate in the mode of treatment.  You should frame the information...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act establishes privacy standards for protecting and securing patients’ protected health information. In addition to providing medical treatment and care, health care professionals bear a responsibility to uphold...

Most hospitals are extremely selective in who they hire and who they allow to come into contact with patients, as being anything but can result in costly litigation for the company. Unfortunately, despite a hospital’s best efforts, medical malpractice claims may still...

When many people enter the health care industry, they have the dream of helping people. Of course, after they finish school and land their jobs, they soon come to find that their positions are not as fulfilling as they had hoped. In fact, many Texas health care...

Texas doctors and other medical professionals have a lot to handle on the job. They literally have patients' lives in their hands, and they know that a mistake could have devastating results. Unfortunately, mistakes can happen, and even when they don't, patients could...

Wanting to help people is a common reason individuals give for entering the medical field. Of course, being a Texas doctor is not an easy job, and even when trying to help, treatments and operations do not always go as planned. Though a doctor may not have...

Many people go into the health care field because they want to do their part to help others. Of course, working in a Texas hospital, doctor's office or other medical settings can be stressful as well as rewarding. In some cases, patients may even believe that they...

An outsized irony attaches to the health care industry in Texas and nationally. It underscores the fact that highly trained professionals focused on helping people at their most vulnerable often face personal risks and grave liability concerns for doing so. The...