Blog Category: Professionalism

HIPAA gets tougher on physicians

The Department of Health and Human Services issued a final omnibus rule to strengthen the patient privacy protections established by the 1996 HIPPA. Including increased security and privacy for patients. [More...]…

Lewd, Crude, and Rude Behavior in Clinical Practice

A very interesting article in this month’s Psychosomatics Journal that discusses a subject that is rarely written about in medical literature – lewd, crude, and rude language and behaviors are often heard and seen in clinical practice.

The authors write …