This analysis has two purposes. The first is to establish that physicians owe their patients a fiduciary duty. Courts … help in times of sickness and injury. This Article asserts that physicians’ fiduciary duty to patients encompasses a duty … errors and other emergent medical risks (collectively referred to as EMRs) to patients who are unaware of these developments …

's financial survival. Physicians, however, have a fiduciary obligation to their patients, which includes the duty to resist … access to large quantities of generic and sometimes misleading, misunderstood, or misapplied medical information, patients … access to the requested medication or procedure, patients may “shop around” for a physician who will accede to their demands …

Objectives: To determine if differences exist in hospital and intensive care unit (ICU)/operating room admission rates … based on health insurance status. Methods: This was a retrospective, cross-sectional study of data from hospital clinical … and financial records for all 2001 emergency department (ED) visits (80,209) to an academic urban hospital. Hospital …

Do healthcare providers pick their patients? This paper uses patient-level administrative data on skilled nursing …-discrimination laws, I find strong evidence of selective admission practices that disproportionately harm Medicaid-eligible patients with … access for these residents at the cost of crowding out short-stay non-Medicaid patients from their preferred facilities. I …

Hospital prices are almost completely irrational. They bear no relationship to the cost of providing the services, they … are opaque, and the prices vary wildly among hospitals and payers. The craziness of hospital pricing was laid bare when … the federal government released data on hospital charges in May 2013. In response to public shock and outrage, hospitals …

Tort-based doctrines of informed consent have utterly failed to assure that patients understand the risks, benefits … shown it to be an abject catastrophe. Most patients lack an even minimal understanding of their treatment options. But there … between the theory and practice of informed consent. These evidence-based educational tools empower patients to make decisions …

ICER of transplantation was $6.646.980 in high risk and $6.246.762 in intermediate risk patients. The ICERs are lower than … in high or intermediate risk pediatric patients …

high risk AML in pediatric patients …

-specific subsidiarity clause. Meanwhile the ECJ handed down a series of judgments concerning patients' rights to reimbursement for …. It codifies the old patients' rights, creates new rights to accountability and transparency, and promotes cooperation …