Starting a Career in Medicine - Threats to Healthy Doctor-Patient Relationships. A National Forum for Medical Students

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2025-02-21 13:00:00 2025-02-22 16:00:00 Starting a Career in Medicine - Threats to Healthy Doctor-Patient Relationships. A National Forum for Medical Students Event Description The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law will host a forum for medical students to discuss threats that they may face when they start their careers as physicians that could interfere with their ability to properly care for their patients. These threats include retaliation by hospital employers and others against physicians who advocate for their patients’ needs or who raise concerns about quality of care, and pressures from health insurers to refrain from ordering costly medical necessary care. The forum will begin Friday afternoon with presentations by physicians and legal experts describing the threats and how they arose historically. Speakers on Saturday morning will describe the legal protections that exist for physicians against these threats and how physicians can get help invoking them.  On Saturday afternoon, attendees will convene in breakout sessions to discuss what can be done to strengthen these legal protections, including systemic changes that might both improve care and decrease the threats, and what medical students specifically can do to improve the situation. After reconvening to hear the breakout groups’ suggestions, the forum will conclude by considering how medical students should be educated about these issues.   The dates and times are: The Forum begins on Friday, Feb. 21 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and reconvenes on Saturday, Feb. 22, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. More information to follow. Case Western Reserve University School of Law George Gund Hall Room A59, Moot Courtroom 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106 School of Law School of Law America/New_York public