LEGAL MEDICINE LECTURES

For: hospitals • medical groups • professional societies • specialty societies • county medical societies • and others

List of Lecture Topics

Choose from any of the following topics, or request additional topics:

  • Communicating skills for clinician risk management.
  • Confidentiality law and HIPAA law in California.
  • Consent for minors and emancipated minors.
  • Drug malpractice.
  • Ethics and its PRACTICAL applications to clinical care.
  • Hospital negligence and hospital risk management.
  • Informed consent and informed consent documentation.
  • Licensing Board requirements and risks for California clinicians.
  • Medical malpractice causes and prevention.
  • Non-compliance by patients, and difficult patients.
  • Nurse practitioner malpractice.
  • Nursing malpractice.
  • Nursing risk management and nurse documentation.
  • Patient consent and implied consent law in California.
  • Physician record keeping and risk management.
  • Physician malpractice.
  • Physician nurse conflicts in hospitals.
  • Record keeping and good medical documentation practices.
  • Referral and consultation malpractice.
  • Reporting statutes including fitness to drive in California.
  • Substance abuse by patients.
  • Any other requested topics on legal medicine in California.

SHORT RÉSUMÉ FOR LEGAL MEDICINE LECTURES

Dan Tennenhouse, MD, JD, FCLM

  • MD: University of Michigan School of Medicine.
  • JD: University of California Hastings College of the Law.
  • Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine (1973 – 2020). He served two terms on the Board of Governors.
  • Clinical Professor of Medicine-Volunteer: Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco Medical School (1973 - present). He teaches two different legal medicine lecture courses.
  • Teaches two different Legal Medicine lecture courses in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco Medical School (1973 – present).
  • Chair, Incident Report Review Committee, University of California San Francisco Medical Center (1982 – 1995).
  • Medical-Legal Consultant: California law firms (1970 – present).
  • Staff Physician: Student Health Service – primary care, University of California San Francisco Medical Center (1973 – 1997).
  • Consultant and lecturer in risk prevention education: Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California Region (1987 to 1997).
  • Faculty, Professional Boundaries Inc. (PBI) remedial education courses, including Medical Ethics, Pharmacist Ethics, Prescribing, and Maintenance and Accountability Seminars for practicing clinicians confronting licensing board discipline.
  • Many different continuing education programs in medicine, nursing, and other health care fields (1973 – present).