July/August 2007 | Medical – Legal News | Where Law and Medicine Meet

By Dorajane Apuna, BSN, MA, RN, CCM, CNLCP

How secure is your e-mail? Prudence stops problems

• The Gist: Law firms should have policies about proper e-mail procedures and archival. Subcontractors to attorneys should know the firms’ rules.

By Kathleen Sesco, RN, BSN, MHA

Evidence-based medicine: What it is, why it’s important in law

By Kathy Aldridge, MSN, ACM, CPHQ, CLNC

Forfeiting the right to sue

Tackle a complex infectious disease case with a timeline, knowledge of key players

By Maureen Orr, RN

Liability of infecting another: Who pays and when, if ever?

• The Gist: Case law pertaining to infecting another person with a deadly disease is evolving.

By Dan Clifford, publisher

Legal Nurse Consulting Institute launches new Fridays-only LNC training

By Dan Clifford, publisher

NewsSpots

Part 1: Nursing standards, their history and significance

Appalachian county hopes to sue OxyContin maker for costs

• The Gist: Such a large products liability case would require medical record and literatures reviews, fiscal evidence and numerous expert witnesses.

By Dan Clifford, publisher

Focus on: Duragesic patches/Fentanyl

• The Gist: Look for use of these patches in medical cases you litigate, defend or review.

By Margaret S. Wacker

Quarantines and civil liberties: specter from the past revives

By Dr. Rosemary E. McGeady, Esq.

RAM on the run: Will computer chips and their data be subject to discovery?

• The Gist: This ruling could mean that millions or billions of pages of otherwise-temporary memory must be written to disks constantly and archived.

By Paul Martino

UCF offers on-line and on-site LNC course, 27 CE hours

Verdicts & Settlements

Cases compiled from www.verdictslaska.com; Editorials by Rose Clifford, editor

Focus on: Bariatric surgery, complications, litigation

Anatomy of a car crash from the medical-legal angle

The Medical-Legal News asked two nurse consultants to analyze a real motor vehicle crash and assess the current and future medical injuries, forensics of the impact and the plaintiff’s credibility.

LETT, on the clinical and forensic

By Sally Lett, DC, RN

Focus on: Compliance

Part 1: Emergency Preparedness remains a focal point with the JCAHO

• The Gist: Hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission must be responsive to the changes in the standards addressing patient safety. If a hospital is JCAHO accredited and were to be out of compliance with its guidelines, resulting in a patient safety issue, it could impact litigation.

By Angela L. Tobias RN, BSN, MSHSA, LNCC

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