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Informed Consent
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Drug & Device Law
Pharmacists in Maryland Owe No Duty of Informed Consent
Today is John Winston Lennon’s birthday. He would have turned 79 on this date but for a truly crazed assassin. Imagine stalking someone because of Catcher in the Rye! Lennon…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women: Obstetric Violence is a Human Rights Violation
On July 11th, 2019, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences presented a report to the UN General Assembly that looked at obstetric violence…
Religion Clause
Recent Articles of Interest
From SSRN:Kristina Michelle Campbell, Sanctuary, Temporary Protected Status, and Catholic Social Teaching, (University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, Vol. 96, No. 1, 2018). Thea Raymond-Sidel, I Saw the Sign: NIFLA…
Bill Madden's Blog
Telemedicine, informed consent + conduct
By Bill Madden
The complaints in this matter relate to a period in 2015 to 2017 when the practitioner was the Medical Director of a business operated under the name Medical Weight Loss…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Note on Informed Consent and Decision-Making After Loss of Competency in Dementia Patients: A New Model
Lauren Padama recently published a Note entitled, Informed Consent and Decision-Making After Loss of Competency in Dementia Patients: A New Model, 28 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J, 173-201 (2018). Provided below…
Bill Madden's Blog
Examination under anaesthesia without consent
By Bill Madden
An anaesthetist obtained an order to set aside his earlier Medical Council suspension as a medical practitioner in Hill v Medical Council of New South Wales [2019] NSWCATOD 97. During…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Trump abortion ‘gag’ rule blocked by federal judge
April 25 (Washington Post): Trump abortion 'gag' rule blocked by federal judge, by Fred Barbash:Last Thursday, a district court judge in Washington state issued a nationwide injunction preventing a new…
Bill Madden's Blog
New surgical technique + informed consent
By Bill Madden
Nigel Poole QC (England) has drawn attention to a recent first instance decision of the England & Wales High Court: Mills v Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 936…
Religion Clause
6th Circuit Upholds Kentucky’s Abortion Informed Consent Law
In EMW Surgical Women's Center, P.S.C. v. Beshear, (6th Cir., April 4, 2019), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, rejected a 1st Amendment free speech…
Family Law Prof Blog
Testicular Bill of Rights
By Family Law
From CNN:A Georgia lawmaker is proposing a law that would make it an "aggravated assault" for men to have sex without a condom, and would require men to obtain permission…