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In a bid to protect physician privacy, the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) is calling for the creation of a nonjudgemental, voluntary and confidential reporting system for the personal health information of its 78 500 member physicians. Some regulatory colleges and an increasing number of hospitals have, under the auspices of protecting the public, recently…

Clay Calvert, Professor & Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication and Director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, has an article in the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy. Here’s how the article begins: “I just killed my two kids. . . . I drowned them. ….

Back in April, I posted something about a l

Jeff D. Gorman reports: A teenager’s rights were not violated when his grandmother sent him to rehab for marijuana dependence, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled. F.C.’s grandmother was concerned about the boy’s running away from home, using drugs, skipping school and stealing. She had been the 14-year-old’s guardian since he was 4. She petitioned for…

Dr. Ken Pope mentioned this case on his mail list today, and I thought it might also be of interested to blog readers as it addresses whether the state’s interesting in investigating a psychiatrist trumps psychotherapist-patient privilege. Here’s the summary of this case from Massachusetts, Board of Registration in Medicine vs. John Doe, as included…

Pamela Lewis Dolan reports: The best defense physician practices can take against data breaches might be to keep a more watchful eye for thieves. The Health Information Trust Alliance in August published an analysis of the 108 breaches that were reported to the Dept. of Health and Human Services from Sept. 23, 2009, to mid-July….