LEGAL MEDICINE — VOL. 01 NO. 02 — AUGUST 2026 SUBSCRIBE
Legal Medicine
A publication on the law that governs medical practice in California.
VOL. 01 · NO. 02 · EDITION TWO · AUGUST 2026
§01 — FEATURE · TELEHEALTH

The Visit Is the Easy Part

Setting up telehealth compliantly, and the advertising that undoes it. The framework here is federal; the worked jurisdiction is California, because that is where the disciplinary apparatus this series cares about actually lives. Confirm the state-specific pieces against your own jurisdiction before relying on them.

LUCIEN DERRY · EDITOR · 1,850 WORDS
§02 — EDITION TWO · THE COLUMNS
01
PATIENT PRIVACY

A Privacy Policy Is a Promise

Making a medical practice's website actually do what its California privacy notice says. The framework is the CCPA as amended by the CPRA; the enforcement examples are from 2025, the most active year the law has had. Confirm the operational specifics against current regulations before relying on them — this area is still moving.

Cordelia Vance 1,980 words
~9 min read
02
EMPLOYMENT LAW

What a Settlement No Longer Buys

Part two of a series on FEHA exposure in medical practice. Part one closed on the work that actually reduces liability — a real complaint procedure, prompt investigation, documented response, no retaliation. This part takes up the question it deferred: what happens after something goes wrong and the practice reaches for the settlement it has always reached for.

Julian Roth 1,520 words
~7 min read
03
AI IN PRACTICE

What the Vendor Sells, and What the Board Disciplines

The case for local LLM scribes, and the risks that don't disappear when you bring the model in-house. The framework is federal; the disciplinary examples are California's, because that is the enforcement world this series has been mapping all along. This is the last piece in that series, and it is where the through-line becomes hardest to miss.

Emile Radclif 1,760 words
~8 min read
§03 — MASTHEAD & COLUMNS
EDITOR
Lucien Derry
PUBLISHER
S.R.D.
STAFF WRITERS
Cordelia Vance · Julian Roth · Emile Radclif
Read past editions in the archive, organized by section.
01
Discipline & the Board
A close read of Medical Board of California decisions, scope-of-practice law, and the disciplinary cases that change how careful practitioners should work.
02
Patient Privacy
HIPAA, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, the CCPA, breach response, vendor BAAs, and the contracts that determine real exposure.
03
Operations & Safety
Cal/OSHA, SB 553, facility safety, staff training, and what regulators look at when they walk in the door.
04
AI In Practice
AB 3030, EHR governance, AI vendor contracts, and the gap between what digital-health vendors say and what their tools do.
05
Employment Law
The Fair Employment and Housing Act, mandatory training, NDAs after AB 749, settlement law, and the soft spots in practice HR.
06
Telehealth
Licensure across state lines, remote prescribing, the Ryan Haight clock, and the advertising and subscription mechanics where the real exposure has moved.
§04 — EDITOR'S NOTE

What Legal Medicine Is For

Resources and perspectives on the practice of medicine, the state of regulation, and the limits placed upon doctors navigating compliance and patient-centered care.