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Don't overlook malpractice liability in medical marijuana states
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30204
Subject(s) - liability , malpractice , citation , medical malpractice , psychology , medicine , law , internet privacy , business , psychiatry , actuarial science , political science , computer science
It is an untapped frontier of case law that likely won't go untested much longer, now that more than half of the states allow for some medical uses of marijuana. Are physicians being exposed to significant malpractice liability when certifying patients to receive marijuana for medical purposes?