The Criminalization of Medicine
The Criminalization of Medicine

Author: Ronald T. Libby

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2007-11-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0313345473

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Medical doctors have been made political scapegoats for the financial crisis of healthcare and the failed war on drugs in the United States, says author Ronald Libby. In order to combat health fraud and abuse, the government launched tough new laws and guidelines designed to battle rising urban violent crimes, illegal drugs, and terrorism. But, by eliminating safeguards to protect the innocent, those same laws and guidelines also made it far easier for agents and prosecutors to arrest, charge, fine, convict, and imprison physicians. Current witch hunts for doctors now include wiretaps and whistleblowers who get 35 percent of the fines, even before conviction. Under a new doctrine of harmless error a doctor receives no protection against false testimony, Libby explains all of this, offering cases from media reports, personal interviews, and records of trial as examples in this compelling book. Huge law enforcement bureaucracies have been created to target doctors for alleged fraud, kickbacks, and drug diversion. Federal, state, and local police are rewarded for prosecuting doctors and other healthcare professionals, while investigators and prosecutors receive pay raises and promotions, and law enforcement agencies seize the assets of doctors charged with felonies. Libby explains that doctors are prosecuted for billing mistakes, for referring patients to clinics, or treating pain patients with pain-relieving drugs. They receive large fines and long prison sentences, some even harsher than those given common criminals who've committed the most violent offenses. Join Senior Research Fellow Libby, who is also a Professor of Political Science, as he shows us why doctors have been demonized as corrupt and greedy entrepreneurs, how media sensationalizes doctors' arrests, and what unjust prosecution could mean for the future of healthcare.

Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine
Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine

Author: Sylvia McKean

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2011-12-30

Total Pages: 2351

ISBN-13: 0071603905

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The definitive guide to the knowledge and skills necessary to practice Hospital Medicine Presented in full color and enhanced by more than 700 illustrations, this authoritative text provides a background in all the important clinical, organizational, and administrative areas now required for the practice of hospital medicine. The goal of the book is provide trainees, junior and senior clinicians, and other professionals with a comprehensive resource that they can use to improve care processes and performance in the hospitals that serve their communities. Each chapter opens with boxed Key Clinical Questions that are addressed in the text and hundreds of tables encapsulate important information. Case studies demonstrate how to apply the concepts covered in the text directly to the hospitalized patient. Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine is divided into six parts: Systems of Care: Introduces key issues in Hospital Medicine, patient safety, quality improvement, leadership and practice management, professionalism and medical ethics, medical legal issues and risk management, teaching and development. Medical Consultation and Co-Management: Reviews core tenets of medical consultation, preoperative assessment and management of post-operative medical problems. Clinical Problem-Solving in Hospital Medicine: Introduces principles of evidence-based medicine, quality of evidence, interpretation of diagnostic tests, systemic reviews and meta-analysis, and knowledge translations to clinical practice. Approach to the Patient at the Bedside: Details the diagnosis, testing, and initial management of common complaints that may either precipitate admission or arise during hospitalization. Hospitalist Skills: Covers the interpretation of common “low tech” tests that are routinely accessible on admission, how to optimize the use of radiology services, and the standardization of the execution of procedures routinely performed by some hospitalists. Clinical Conditions: Reflects the expanding scope of Hospital Medicine by including sections of Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Geriatrics, Neurology, Palliative Care, Pregnancy, Psychiatry and Addiction, and Wartime Medicine.

AHLA Corporate Practice of Medicine (AHLA Members)
AHLA Corporate Practice of Medicine (AHLA Members)

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780769881720

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Why invest in this title?States follow a multitude of different modelsSome states have eliminated the prohibition completelySome states have CPOM prohibitions that are not enforcedKnow the law.Here are some of the areas where you'll want to stay informed:Contract disputes, such as enforcement of non-competition agreements and the right to receive reimbursement from third partiesEnforcing an insurance carrier's reimbursement to a medical corporation operating in violation of a state's CPOMFee splitting and the unlicensed practice of medicineStates that have statutes governing licensure requirements for affiliated health care professionals such as dentists, chiropractors, optometrists

Current Catalog
Current Catalog

Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 1442

ISBN-13:

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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.