The increasing medicolegal cost in the care of high-level athletes.

Background: Medical malpractice represents a significant economic cost in health care. Increasingly large damage claims by professional athletes against physicians have raised concerns about the medicolegal challenges in caring for high-level athletes.

Methods: An online proprietary legal research database was queried for lawsuits related to malpractice in the care of professional and amateur athletes from 1992 to 2023.

It's Not Irony, it's Interest Convergence: A CRT Perspective on Racism as Public Health Crisis Statements.

Racism as a Public Health Crisis Statements (RPHCs) acknowledge the reality that racism must be eradicated to ensure health justice: a fair and just opportunity for all individuals to be healthy. Scholars of critical race theory (CRT) have expressed doubt when it comes to the capacity of law-related institutions to catalyze or sustain anti-racist efforts. These strains of skepticism underscore the question of whether so many RPHCS were adopted precisely because, in many instances, they were merely symbolic acts.

Filling a Federal Void: Promises and Perils of State Law in Addressing Women's Health Disparities.

Federal law often avoids setting minimum standards for women's health and reproductive rights issues, leaving legislative and regulatory gaps for the states to fill as they see fit. This has mixed results. It can lead to state innovation that improves state-level health outcomes, informs federal health reform, and provides data on best practices for other states.

Management of Agitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has radically altered delivery of care in emergency settings. Unprecedented hardship due to ongoing fears of exposure and threats to personal safety, along with societal measures enacted to curb disease transmission, have had broad psychosocial impact on patients and healthcare workers alike. These changes can significantly affect diagnosing and managing behavioral emergencies such as agitation in the emergency department.

A Response to Meyerson's Defence of the American Right to Try : Experimenting with hope.

This comment responds to a defence of the right to try, a law adopted by the United States and many state governments that seeks to expand access to experimental drugs. In defending the right to try, Meyerson argues that it is part of a broader rights-based approach for patient access to innovation. But a drug that is still part of the experimental process may not be an innovation-indeed, it may be a failure and even harmful or dangerous.

Responding to Public Health Emergencies at the Local Level: Administrative Preparedness Challenges, Strategies, and Resources.

This manuscript summarizes the most common barriers to effective administrative preparedness and how to surmount them through the use of promising practices, strategies, and NACCHO developed resources focused on addressing unique jurisdictional requirements and needs.

Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Restoring and Improving Public Health Practice, Accountability, and Trust.

The Flint water crisis demonstrates the importance of adequate legal preparedness in dealing with complicated legal arrangements and multiple statutory responsibilities. It also demonstrates the need for alternative accountability measures when public officials fail to protect the public's health and explores mechanisms for restoring community trust in governmental public health.

Collaborating with Sovereign Tribal Nations to Legally Prepare for Public Health Emergencies.

Public health emergencies, including infectious disease outbreaks and natural disasters, are issues faced by every community. To address these threats, it is critical for all jurisdictions to understand how law can be used to enhance public health preparedness, as well as improve coordination and collaboration across jurisdictions. As sovereign entities, Tribal governments have the authority to create their own laws and take the necessary steps to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies.

Bundling Justice: Medicaid's Support for Housing.

Should Medicaid pay for supportive housing for homeless persons? After describing current limits on how states can use Medicaid funds to support housing, this article considers whether justice requires treating Medicaid recipients residing in nursing homes and Medicaid recipients needing supportive housing similarly.

Recent Developments in Workers' Compensation and Employers' Liability Law.

This survey reviews significant statutory developments and appellate court decisions addressing workers' compensation issues for the period from October 2016 through September 2017. Workers' compensation systems are state statutory programs; the direct effect of statutes and precedents outside of their state of origin is limited. Nevertheless, compensation principles and laws have much in common among states and much can be learned from studying how legislatures and courts of other jurisdictions have treated similar issues.

Collaborating for Health: Health in All Policies and the Law.

This article introduces and defines the Health in All Policies (HiAP) concept and examines existing state legislation, with a focus on California. The article starts with an overview of HiAP and then analyzes the status of HiAP legislation, specifically addressing variations across states. Finally, the article describes California's HiAP approach and discusses how communities can apply a HiAP framework not only to improve health outcomes and advance health equity, but also to counteract existing laws and policies that contribute to health inequities.

Recent Developments In Workers’ Compensation And Employers' Liability Law.

This survey reviews significant statutory developments and appellate court decisions addressing workers’ compensation issues for the period from October 2015 through September 2016. Workers' compensation systems are state statutory programs, and the direct effect of laws and case precedents outside of their state of origin is limited. Nevertheless, compensation principles and statutes have much in common among states and much can be learned from studying how legislatures and courts of other jurisdictions have treated similar issues.

Recent Developments in Workers' Compensation and Employers' Liability Law.

This survey reviews significant statutory developments and appellate court decisions addressing workers' compensation issues for the period from October 2014 through September 2015. Workers’ compensation systems are state statutory programs, and the direct effect of laws and case precedents outside of their state of origin is limited. Nevertheless, compensation principles and statutes have much in common among states and much can be learned from studying how legislatures and courts of other jurisdictions have treated similar issues.

Normalizing Disability in Families.

This comment shifts Ouellette's frame of reference in linking prenatal selection against disability, laws prohibiting prenatal sex selection, and fertility specialists' discrimination against disabled adults. Viewing decisions about who can reproduce and what children will be born as fundamentally decisions about family suggests ways to promote acceptance of people with disabilities as valued family members — without limiting reproductive liberties.

Informed consent or institutionalized eugenics? How the medical profession encourages abortion of fetuses with Down syndrome.

Many women are unprepared to make prenatal decisions about fetuses diagnosed with Down Syndrome because of societal pressures to have "normal" children, a negative view of persons with disabilities by many in society, a fear of legal liability by those in the medical community, the lack of genuine informed consent before undergoing genetic testing and abortion, and the failure of non-directive pre-abortion counseling in the medical community. Moreover, medical professionals fail to communicate correct and unbiased information before and during the genetic screening, diagnostic testing, and abortion decision-making process. This article addresses the contributing factors and causes that ultimately lead to a lack of informed consent and a very high abortion rate for fetuses diagnosed with Down Syndrome.