Random Notes is for subjects I want to blog about or rebroadcast, but just don’t have the time to do well:
A doctor is accused of sexual assault on his patient, and in order to get the benefit of his insurance coverage, claims it was treatment. The insurance carrier is not amused. (New York Legal Update);
A judge pays off bet with beer (Sentencing Law and Policy);
Blawg Review #139 celebrates Human Rights Day at De Novo;
Health Wonk Review is up at HealthBlawg;
In Massachusetts, the duty of a doctor has now been extended beyond the patient, to those the patient might injure while on the drugs prescribed by the doctor (TortsProf);
Hospital systems should be designed to anticipate human error (NY Emergency Medicine);
The Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial gets analyzed by the Ninth Circuit (Deliberations)
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