What are the medical record keeping responsibilities of an off-site contract physicians who review prescription renew requests for a company, not a medical practice, that provided a prescription refill service? An important Pennsylvaniappellate court decision recently affirmed a Pennsylvania Board of Medicine $2500 fine for a doctor who failed to properly retain and maintain his…

Currently, absent a specific odor of alcohol, individuals suffering from ADHD who drive while under the influence of prescribed ADHD medications or are non-medicated can still be charged with, and found guilty of, violating the DUI or DAI statutes of most jurisdictions.  In Pennsylvanian officer can testify, with no intoxicant basis, that an operator of…

Depending from where a homeowner’s trash is removed and what arguments are raised on suppression, evidence derived from these trash pulls is admissible in court. Commonwealth v James, 2013 Pa. LEXIS 1096 (May 31, 2013) evidences when inexperienced counsel make incorrect arguments which allow the Commonwealth to fix their otherwise faulty case, your better off…