William Biggs

When it comes to university student speech, why isn’t the answer that student groups can take whatever positions they want (even if ridiculous or offensive) and the school doesn’t have to take a position on that because it’s just a group of students speaking, not the university?

Me, every single day for the next two years:

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Medicine in 2023: You should get a vaccine, maybe. If you want. Up to you. Medicine in 1961: I know what's best for you, so I took out all your teeth. Go deal with that.

Always funny to run into stuff from that early period in the development of informed consent. Take this example, from a 1961 case of a woman who had all of her remaining teeth removed against her will.

One of the ironies of my university mandating that we drop textbooks is that the students will likely now be required to read much, much more. With little time to prepare a highly curated experience, most of them will have to read lots of primary source articles, for example.

I finally found a really impressive open access textbook for health law. Success! The only problem with it is that it is UK law.

@AlanPlotzker Amazing how quickly the culture is shifting under our feet. If you read JAMA or NEJM in the last ten years you would think that medical transition was a largely settled question, and now it is the very tip of the wedge in the culture wars.

Embarrassing to see the place where I did all of my training cave to bigots and idiots like this. Their patients deserve better than this

As far as I can tell, the first health law ever adopted in the colonies that became the US was a law regarding who would pay for indigent care. The second law, passed some years later, was for medical malpractice and consent. So if you ever wondered where the priorities were...

Feeling this in my bones right now. I’ve never been more overwhelmed with information than being told carve a whole new curriculum out of my field without the use of a textbook.

@KirkJNahrawork @MithradatesVI It’s a busy legal field.

@wbiggs @MithradatesVI A whole lot of stuff there

@MithradatesVI A core privacy chapter

@KirkJNahrawork @MithradatesVI HIPAA, HITECH, issues of patient access, release without consent, record retention, duty to warn, confidentiality and superconfidentiality, liability for unauthorized access, and medical identity theft all slot in under "health information management."

@MithradatesVI Privacy is much catchier. That also sounds like records retention.

As far as actually writing the body of the work, all I've got so far is a title page, six pages of author's notes, and an index. But we all have to start somewhere.

I'm starting a plan of attack to take taxation out of my curriculum and add insurance. Since that's outside the scope of my top-level outline, I'm also starting an outline for what I'm calling "Section X," for chapters that I probably don't have time to finish before Fall 2024.

Having searched diligently for OER health law texts aimed at non-lawyers to replace my current textbook, I'm throwing in the towel and accepting that I will just have to create my own. And since it's going to be OER anyway, I'm going to be posting about it as I write it.🧵