Archive
Every edition Legal Medicine has published, newest first, with each edition's pieces grouped by section.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Discipline & the Board
When the Standard of Care Runs Out of Road
Suicidality, off-label practice, and the case for informed consent. The standard of care is not written in any statute, fixed by the FDA, or set by the AMA — and for a lawful, promising treatment, withholding it can be the deviation.
Employment & FEHA
Your Trainings Are Now Personnel Records
For California practices. SB 513 folds every mandated training into the employee file — with a required format, a 30-day production clock, and a three-year shelf life. A California clinic runs more of these than almost any other small employer.
Two Trainings, Not One
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.
Privacy & Data
The CMIA Bites Twice
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.
Operations & Safety
The Binder in the Drawer
Your SB 553 workplace violence prevention plan exists. It is in a binder. No one has opened it since the day you signed it.
AI & Digital Health
AB 3030 Does Not Cover Your AI Scribe (Probably)
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.