Resources and perspectives on the practice of medicine, the state of regulation, and the limits placed upon doctors navigating compliance and patient-centered care.
It is almost never the big malpractice case. It is the records. The Medical Board of California is, in practice, a records-quality enforcement agency.
California's medical-privacy statute is not a slightly stricter HIPAA. It is an entirely separate exposure with a private right of action and statutory damages.
Your SB 553 workplace violence prevention plan exists. It is in a binder. No one has opened it since the day you signed it.
The statute is narrower than the vendor talking points. Most of what is being sold into California clinics this year does not actually fall under it. The exposure is somewhere else.
SB 1343 compliance is a process requirement. FEHA liability is an outcome. Practices that conflate the two keep losing the same case in different rooms.
Two pieces a week. The law and the practice. No filler. Free, and intends to stay that way.