Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 300-311 , July 2005

Legal Issues in Caring for Patients With Kidney Disease by Selectively Integrating Complementary Therapies

  • Michael H. Cohen

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Michael H. Cohen, JD, Harvard Medical School Osher Institute, 401 Park Drive, 22-W, Boston, MA 02215.

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  5. Cohen MH . Healing at the borderland of medicine and religion (regulating potential abuse of authority by spiritual healers) . J Law Relig . 2004;18:373–426
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  9. Studdert DM , Eisenberg DM , Miller FH , et al.   Medical malpractice implications of alternative medicine . JAMA . 1998;280:1620–1625
  10. Cohen MH , Eisenberg DM . Potential physician malpractice liability associated with complementary/integrative medical therapies . Ann Intern Med . 2002;136:596–603
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  17. Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4731.22 (18)
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  21. Moore v Baker (98 F.2d 1129 [11th Cir 1993])
  22. Adams KE , Cohen MH , Jonsen AR , et al.   Ethical considerations of complementary and alternative medical therapies in conventional medical settings . Ann Intern Med . 2002;137:660–664
  23. Fentiman LC , Kaufman G , Merton V , et al.   Current issues in the psychiatrist-patient relationship (outpatient civil commitment, psychiatric abandonment and the duty to continue treatment of potentially dangerous patients—Balancing duties to patients and the public) . Pace Law Rev . 2000;20:231–262
  24. Cohen MH . In: Beyond Complementary Medicine (Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Health Care and Human Evolution) . Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press; 2000;p. 47–58
  25. Adamson TE , et al.   Physician communication skills and malpractice claims. A complex relationship . West J Med . 1989;150:356–360
  26. Gutheil TG , Simon RI . Abandonment of patients in split treatment . Harvard Rev Psychiatry . 2003;11:175–179
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  28. Charell v Gonzales (660 New York Supplement 2d 665, 668 [S.Ct., N.Y. County, 1997]), affirmed and modified to vacate punitive damages award, 673 New York Supplement 2d 685 (App Div, 1st Dept, 1998), reargument denied, appeal denied, 1998 New York Appellate Division LEXIS 10711 (App. Div., 1st Dept., 1998), appeal denied, 706 Northeastern Reporter 2d 1211 (1998)
  29. Tunkl v Regents of the Univ of Calif (383 Pacific Reporter 2d 441 [Cal 1963])
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  31. O’Connell S . It won’t hurt you one bit . The Times (London) . 2002; June 24
  32. Cohen MH . Legal issues in integrative medicine (A guide for clinicians, hospitals, and patients) . Gig Harbor, WA: National Acupuncture Foundation; 2005;

 Supported by grants from the Greenwall Foundation and the Rudolph Steiner Foundation.

PII: S1548-5595(05)00069-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ackd.2005.03.003

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 300-311 , July 2005