The best interests of a pregnant psychotic patient can be served by determining her decision making capacity and using surrogate decision making if needed.

Courses on medical malpractice litigation help medical students learn what is expected of them as expert witness and defendant through a mock deposition.

Clinicians must avoid violating professional ethical principles and patients’ legal rights and they may not ever discriminate. So, what does that mean in practice?

After the Indiana HIV outbreak in 2015, Congress partially repealed the ban on needle exchange programs, providing funding for operations but not syringes.

Medical expert witnesses are ethically and legally obligated to provide honest testimony that meets the standards of the Daubert test.

Introduction to the March 2016 issue on bed to bench: medicine and the law.

Expedited partner therapy is an ethical and effective treatment for sexually transmitted infection, provided patients are reliable messengers to partners.

To participate in physician workforce policy, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education must be protected from enforcement of antitrust law.

Equal access is a goal even when patients present with taboo illnesses. But, the date of a patient’s last drink still matters.

Standards for posttransplant graft/survival rates do not reward transplant centers for performing riskier transplants to increase population benefit.