Questions tagged [health]
Questions relating to the practice of medicine or provision of healthcare
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In Germany, are doctors within the same institution able to access any patients' medical records?
I have a friend living in Germany who is seeking therapy in her small town. However, a problem that she is facing is that all of the psychological/psychiatric institutions in her town are managed by ...
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Lab provider says I owe them money, insurance company says I don't. Who is right?
tl/dr: My doctor told me some lab work would be fully covered, but the doctor didn't do the work themselves. They sent it off to a 3rd party lab
service. Turns out that one particular test wasn't ...
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Is it legal for a parent who is against vaccines to prevent their child from receiving the preventative vaccine against rabies?
So this is a modified version of a question I asked on Biology.SE.
I know that the vast majority of US states allow parents to opt out of giving their child a vaccine for religious reasons, and ...
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Can I get sued for putting bleach in someone's drink?
I had a slushie order, and we were out of water. There was a bottle of clear liquid, which I mistook as water. I put in around 3 ounces. Later, My boss informed me that the clear liquid under the ...
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Laws blocking the use of dogs to detect the coronavirus at airports?
Is there a law or regulation that prevents the use of dogs to detect the coronavirus at airports in the United States as it is done already somewhere else? Do other countries have laws like these ...
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Are paramedic required to recognize stroke and deliver the stroke victim to ER?
ER arrives for a somewhat confused patient. Her speech is slurred, she has no balance. Her husband has very limited English and calls his son to translate via Skype. The paramedics warn about the ...
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Is hospital ER liable for an injury of a deranged untestrained patient?
A stroke patient who is clearly deranged due to the stroke arrives to ER. The patient is not listening to instructions and acts out. The patient is told to stay on the bed and not to get up and left ...
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Are hospitals required to provide language interpreters to patients?
California, USA. The hospital is on COVID lockdown, no visitors allowed. The patient had a stroke, lost her English, but seem to understand her native language; she slowly and barely coherently speaks ...
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Is male circumcision without consent and without medical reason legal in France?
A lot of circumcision are realized on children in France without medical reasons.
Are those operations legal or illegal ?
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Would the ADA allow a teacher with comorbidities relevant to COVID-19 to insist on teaching remotely in Fall 2020?
I am a professor at a large state university which has announced it will teach classes on campus this fall, and I am diabetic. I am very concerned about whether my university can provide an ...
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Does a patient have a right to obtain a copy of documents verifying a physician's claims of his qualification?
Some physicians offer online consultations to patients who reside abroad. In these cases do patients have an opportunity to verify the identity of the physician? Some information is not intended for ...
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When does "mental health" factor into penalizing an individual?
What is the reason behind a person with poor mental health wouldn't face the same repercussions as someone with good mental health for breaking the law? In extreme situations it could be used as a ...
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Does the New York State Governor have the authority to impose fines?
The New York State Governor has allegedly declared a "fine for violations of the state's social distancing protocol from $500 to $1,000...."
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Constitutionality of more restrictive bans on assembly
Virginia’s governor issued a ‘stay at home order’ that will be enforced by fines, and is in effect until June 10th, unless otherwise revoked. This includes the ban on groups of 10 or more.
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Who regulates the information related to the nutrients of a product?
On almost all the products we buy in supermarkets, we see a table like the following:
However, can I producer give wrong information in these kinds of explanatory notes on the products? Who regulates ...
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