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...
Health Care Law
The HIPAA privacy requirements for medical providers
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...
Does vicarious liability apply in medical malpractice cases?
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...
Burnout could increase the chances of medical malpractice claims
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...
Medical malpractice defense can start by looking at claim
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...
Even doctors doing their best can face medical malpractice claims
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...
Radiologists certainly want to avoid malpractice claims
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...
Proud and proven legal advocacy for Texas medical professionals
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...