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Paddy Deighan, the Premier Medical Spa Lawyer

 Last month, a medical team from the University of Pennsylvania did something rather astonishing. The medical team attached the veins of an alive, but brain dead patient to the veins to a  large machine with pig liver mounted in the middle of it.  For three days, the man’s blood passed into the machine, through the […]

At the height of the arms race, the United States and Russia recognized that the doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was detrimental to both nations. MAD was such that in any conflagration, both countries as well as the rest of the world would likely be destroyed. Accordingly, it was unlikely that either country would […]

Good or bad…I just report the news!! The Biden administration rescinded the Trump policy that provided health care workers relief from a perceived burden of being required to perform termination of life procedures on patients when doing so conflicted with their religious or moral beliefs. The Trump policy was effective in 2019 and was recently rescinded […]

I just had a conversation today with an IT person person from a health care provider client. he raised some valid points about a particular situation. It reminds me that HIPAA is one of the most prevalent healthcare laws as well as one of the most misunderstood. Despite years of experience, the IT person today had what […]

Prior to the the end of the year, I wrote that utilization of telemedicine was down in 2023. This may be a surprise to many. Of course telemedicine was reinvigorated during the pandemic when patients and providers utilized it as a preferred method of care. Perhaps it was only natural that there would be a drop […]