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The Medico-Legal Problems Internet Reference Page
Information on Medico-Legal topics such as informed consent, vaccine damage, product liability, no-fault liability, confidentiality, and HIV/AIDS.

Ethics

Most Medical Provider Network Entities that Contract Directly with Employers are Currently Illegal
Everybody's doing it, and most of medicine is wooing it...but who has stopped to figure out if the burgeoning group of doctors, hospitals and other medical providers who are now starting to contract directly with employers to provide health services for their employees are obeying the laws (not to mention which laws are applicable)?
 
Institute For Jewish Medical Ethics
 

Liability

Medicine & Law - Malpractice
Deals With Medical Malpractice And Other Litigation Which Involves Medical Expertise And Information.
 
Law and the Physician: A Practical Guide
Edward P. Richards and Katharine C. Rathbun - Access to this infobase is provided free for your personal use by kind permission of Little, Brown and Company and the authors.
 
Negligence/Malpractice News
A collection offered by The New York Law Publishing Company.
 
Risk: Health, Safety & Environment
The official journal of the Risk Assessment & Policy Association, Risk is a refereed, interdisciplinary quarterly exploring public and private efforts to manage science and technology for net reduction in the probability, severity and aversive quality of health, safety and environmental impacts of natural and artificial hazards.
 
The Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, Inc
This site contains a review of women's reproductive freedom in six countries around the world - Brazil, China, Germany, India, Nigeria, and the United States. Each country's pertinent laws and policies are discussed on a wide range of topics.

Medical Records 

Section-by-Section Analysis of The Medical Records Confidentiality Act of 1995 - US
This bill establishes federal privacy protection for protected health information whether in paper or electronic form.

State Specific

 
New Jersey State Medical Practice Statutes - New Jersey
The documents in this websection contain the various statutes (laws) governing the practice of medicine and surgery in New Jersey. A health care provider who is licensed in New Jersey as a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or a Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) is required to abide by these laws.

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