Health Hippo: Professionals

• 42 USC Sec. 11111. Professional review
• 42 USC Sec. 11112. Standards for professional review actions
• 42 USC Sec. 11113. Payment of reasonable attorneys' fees and costs
• 42 USC Sec. 11114. Guidelines of Secretary
• 42 USC Sec. 11115. Construction
• 42 USC Sec. 11131. Requiring reports on medical malpractice payments
• 42 USC Sec. 11132. Reporting of sanctions taken by Boards
• 42 USC Sec. 11133. Reporting of certain professional review actions
• 42 USC Sec. 11134. Form of reporting
• 42 USC Sec. 11135. Duty of hospitals to obtain information
• 42 USC Sec. 11136. Disclosure and correction of information
• 42 USC Sec. 11137. Miscellaneous provisions
• 42 USC Sec. 11151. Definitions
• 42 USC Sec. 11152. Reports and memoranda of understanding
• 42 USC Sec. 13031. Child abuse reporting

• Salary Equivalency Guidelines for Physical Therapy, Respiratory Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, and Occupational Therapy Services; Final Rule [Federal Register: January 30, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 20)]. The guidelines do not apply to inpatient hospital services and hospice services. The guidelines will be used by Medicare fiscal intermediaries to determine the maximum allowable cost of those services.
• 45 CFR PART 60 - NATIONAL PRACTITIONER DATA BANK FOR ADVERSE INFORMATION ON PHYSICIANS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS SUBPART A - GENERAL PROVISIONS
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.1 The National Practitioner Data Bank.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.2 Applicability of these regulations.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.3 Definitions.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.4 How information must be reported.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.5 When information must be reported.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.6 Reporting errors, omissions, and revisions.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.7 Reporting medical malpractice payments.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.8 Reporting licensure actions taken by Boards of Medical Examiners.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.9 Reporting adverse actions on clinical privileges.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.10 Information which hospitals must request from the National Practitioner Data Bank.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.11 Requesting information from the National Practitioner Data Bank .
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.12 Fees applicable to requests for information.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.13 Confidentiality of National Practitioner Data Bank information.
  • 45 CFR Sec. 60.14 How to dispute the accuracy of National Practitioner Data Bank information.

• Foreign Physicians: Exchange Visitor Program Becoming Major Route to Practicing in U.S. Underserved Areas. GAO/HEHS-97-26, Dec. 30, 1996.
• Medical Education: Curriculum and Financing Strategies Need to Encourage Primary Care Training (Letter Report, 10/21/94, GAO/HEHS-95-9). The proportion of active doctors who are primary care physicians--family and general practice physicians, general internists, and pediatricians--has dropped from 53 to 35 since 1960.
• Medical Liability: Impact on Hospital and Physician Costs Extends Beyond Insurance (Letter Report, 09/29/95, GAO/AIMD-95-169). GAO reviewed the types of medical liability costs that affect hospitals and physicians, and whether existing studies include these costs in their estimates of hospital and physician liability expenses.
• Primary Care Physicians: Managing Supply in Canada, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (Letter Report, 05/18/94, GAO/HEHS-94-111). GAO examined the methods used by four nations--Canada, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom--to manage their physician supply and specialty distribution.

• Chamber of Commerce, US v. FEC (D.C. Cir., November 14, 1995) (FEC enjoined from enforcing solicitation rule against AMA)
• NLRB v. Health Care & Retirement Corp. (U.S., May 23, 1994) (NLRB test for determining whether nurses are supervisors was inconsistent with the NLRB statute)
• Sammon v. New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners (3d Cir., September 15, 1995) (New Jersey licensing statute regulating the practice of midwifery passes constitutional muster)
• Supreme Court Cases: Scientific

• Medicine (105th Congress)
• Health policy (105th Congress)
• Assisted Suicide (104th)
• Congressional Record 1997: Assisted Suicide
• Senator Frist's Bills

• History of Medicine Links
  • Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua A resource for the study of Greco-Roman medicine and medical thought from Mycenaean times until the fall of the Roman Empire.
  • Other Writings of Hippocrates
  • U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
  • Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) This system provides access to nearly 60,000 images (reproducing photographs, artwork, and printed texts) drawn from the extensive (and much larger) collection of the History of Medicine Division at the US National Library of Medicine.
  • HHRC Reference Department The Reference Department contains thousands of catolog descriptions of artifacts, papers and records, bibiliographies of published books and manuscripts, transcripts of oral histories, and links to other Internet locations.
  • Retrospectives Retrospectives is the quarterly newletter of the University of Michigan's Historical Center for the Health Sciences.
  • Museo di Fisica - DSF Napoli Presentation with JPEG pictures of the collection of the early instruments of the Department of Physics of the University of Naples from 1645 to 1900.
  • The Massachusetts General Hospital History of Neurosurgery Homepage
  • An early history of brain surgery Unearthed remains of successful brain operations, as well as surgical implements, were found in Trois Freres, France-- Europe's noted archeological dig.
  • SURFING THE INTERNET FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE SURFING THE INTERNET FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE by Peter Hirtle of the National Archives was first presented at the 1993 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine....
  • The Harvey Cushing Historical Medical Library The Library owns over 300 medical incunabula.
  • History of Medicine The WWWVL for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine was established on 6 September 1994 to keep track of information facilities in the field of the history of science, technology and medicine.
  • A History of Anaesthesia at Harvard University Following the researches on the atmospheric gases in the latter half of the eighteenth century, it may be conjectured that the concept of surgical anaesthesia was nearly ripe for the times.
  • Short History of the Lobotomy Welcome to the internet's only history of the early development of the lobotomy; in particular, the life of Dr. Walter Freeman and the psychosurgical procedure that became known as the "Ice Pick Lobotomy".
• FACS Links
  • FACS: News from the College
  • FACS: Information on Patient Choice That Ying/Yang/Patient/Consumer thing (see above).
  • FACS: Statement of Recommendations to Ensure Quality of Surgical The surgeon must be the patient advocate so that all patients will be ensured access to high-quality and the appropriate range of surgical care...
  • FACS: Statement on Managed Care and the Trauma System Unfortunately, in some situations, managed care systems or insurers have interfered with and defeated the purpose of trauma system networks...
  • FACS: Statement on Disclosure of Commercial Interest
  • FACS: Statement on Ethics in Patient Referrals to Ancillary Services
  • FACS: Statement on Advance Directives by Patients: "Do Not Resuscitate"
  • FACS: Statement on Interprofessional Relations with Doctors of Chiropractic
  • FACS: Statement on the Physician Expert Witness
  • FACS: Statement on The Use of Animals In Research
  • FACS: Statement on Gun Control
  • FACS: Statement on the Surgeon and HIV Infection
  • FACS: Statement on the Surgeon and Hepatitis B Infection
  • FACS: Statement on Issues to be Considered Before New Surgical
  • FACS: Statement on Emerging Surgical Technologies and the Evaluation
  • FACS: Protecting Your Health
  • FACS: When You Need an Operation
• Forensic Medicine: mailserv@acc.fau.edu Forensic Medicine and Science list. Send the following message: subscribe forens-L Your Name
• 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S LAWCOPEDIA MEDICINE AND LAW - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE 1.27.96 This Topic Area deals with medical malpractice and other litigation where medical expertise and information is involved.
• AMA: Science News Web editions of many AMA journals.
• AMA: What's New What's new at the American Medical Association's web site.
• American College of Surgeons: News from the College Includes highlights from the FACS Bulletin.
• American Dental Association: News ADA News includes the Dental News Digest, updated daily; online editions of ADA newsletters Washington Report, State Legislative Report and Dental Advocate; abstracts of JADA and ADA News; ADA news releases and an Event Calendar.
• Employee Benefit Issues In Physician Managed Care - Part II This article examines the effect of medical practice restructuring on employee benefits for physicians and their employees. By Fred J. Diss
• HCLA: News Releases HCLA is a national advocacy coalition that supports effective federal health care liability reform to enhance the fairness, timeliness and cost-effectiveness of the civil justice system in resolving health care injury disputes.
• HHS: News & Public Affairs Press releases, fact sheets, speeches and more from the Department of Health and Human Services.
• HSR: The Effects of Hospital-Physician Integration Strategies on Hospital Financial Performance The findings support the validity of hospital-physician financial integration efforts, and to a lesser extent the involvement of physicians in hospital governance.
• Law and the Physician: A Practical Guide, by Edward P. Richards and Katharine C. Rathbun - Folio Infobase An excellent interactive "treatise" by Edward P. Richards and Katharine C. Rathbun.
• MedAccess: Physician Disciplinary Boards Medicine, like other professions, has high standards that its members must comply with at all times. There is a code of ethics, in addition to written standards, that must be practiced by a physician in his or her practice.
• NIH: Medical Staff Handbook This handbook describes the policies and procedures of the NIH departments concerned with patient care.
• RAND: The Use and Costs of Chiropractic Care in Chiropractic users were more likely than nonusers to be white, between the ages of 18 and 50, high school graduates, and married. Cost-sharing decreased annual chiropractic expenditures by about one-half.
• The Doctor-Patient Relationship Seminars A project of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.

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