A medical indignity; 'I felt like Karen Silkwood,' says nurse who uncovered questionable experiments

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Diaz v. Hillsborough General Hospital Authority, the Pennsylvania class action which established the new cause of action of dignitary harm, a violation designating a violation of the plaintiff's constitutional rights because medical tests were performed without a patient's informed consent, is analyzed.

Hospitals, Physicians, Medical malpractice, Informed consent (Medical law), Informed consent, Tort liability, Tort liability of hospitals

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Health care fraud case raises ire; three lawyers identified as unindicted co-conspirators

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A federal prosecution of an alleged he alth care fraud kickback scheme has two lawyers as defendants and two as unindicted co-conspirators. The case charges osteopaths, hospital executives and lawyers with the running of the scheme whereby the doctors illegally referred Medicaid- and Medicare-eligible patients to hospitals for kickback running in the millions of dollars. Health care specialists across the US call this the first prosecution of the kind.

Investigations, Health services administration, White collar crimes, White collar crime

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Out of the soup; 'anything can happen to anybody,' says a health care lawyer charged in a case that arose from his work

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Charges against health care lawyer Mark Thompson's of conspiring to commit Medicare and Medicaid fraud are discussed. Thompson was eventually acquitted and what he went through became a reason for health care and white-collar criminal defense lawyers state the the government had gone too far in its fight against health care fraud.

Medicare fraud, Thompson, Mark (American writer)

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