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.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2000
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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.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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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.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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