Law Office of Elizabeth Rothman

12/03/2021

If you are about to switch jobs or find your first position after training, please watch this introduction to physician contracts. It is a recorded version of the talk I have been giving to residents and fellows around the country for years.

Elizabeth Shubov, the author of The Missing Module provides an introduction to important contracting concepts and common pitfalls in physician contracts. As ...

02/04/2020

The last week to apply for the CalHealthCare Loan Forgiveness program for doctors and dentists primarily serving mediCal beneficiaries.

Physicians for a Healthy California (PHC) is dedicated to improving community health, growing a diverse physician workforce and promoting health equity.

09/30/2019

"Earlier this month, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 5 – a sweeping piece of legislation that will reclassify hundreds of thousands of workers as employees instead on independent contractors."

"The bill could also have impacts in health care, but the California Medical Association (CMA) fought hard to ensure the interests of physicians were protected under the bill. CMA successfully secured an exemption for physicians from the legislation, arguing that the decision and the bill should be primarily focused on protecting lower-wage workers and that physicians should not be impacted by the codification of the Dynamex Case."

"During the debate over the bill, a question was raised as to whether AB 5 would impact California’s bar on the corporate practice of medicine. It does not. The exemption made explicit in AB 5 as it pertains to physicians is comprehensive, ensuring that physicians are not unduly influenced by a corporate entity when practicing medicine."

Earlier this month, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 5 – a sweeping piece of legislation that will reclassify hundreds of thousands of workers as employees instead on independent contractors.

07/26/2019

Enrollment in US medical schools has grown by 31% since 2002, but averting a physician shortage hinges on boosting the number of residency training slots.

07/23/2019

Kevin MD published an excerpt of my book explaining professional liability insurance. Check it out!

Professional liability or “malpractice” insurance protects a physician and the employer from claims related to the negligent practice of medicine.

07/11/2019

It is the same contract everyone else has signed, so it is fine for me to sign it, right?

Every contract must be read on its own merits. In most instances, there are no standardized physician contracts that use boilerplate language. Each contract must be read cover to cover.

07/05/2019

“A lawyer advising a client to adopt an illegal or unenforceable term, who knows or should have known about its unenforceability, would seem to be in violation of Rule 8.4(c) prohibiting conduct involving dishonesty, deception, and fraud,” the letter states.

One San Diego-based group wants the State Bar to weigh in on the topic.

07/03/2019

To reward 247 select doctors for treating poorer patients on Medi-Cal, California will help repay their student loans—using to***co tax money.

06/14/2019

Growing up poor near the Mexican border gave Karla Garcia, MD, MPH, insight into the daily struggles faced by Latinos with low incomes. After her medical training, Garcia returned to the community where she grew up to practice family medicine at San Ysidro Health, which serves San Diego County throu...

06/13/2019

"It is true that health care has become corporatized to an almost unrecognizable degree. But it is also true that most clinicians remain committed to the ethics that brought them into the field in the first place. This makes the hospital an inspiring place to work."

One resource seems infinite and free: the professionalism of caregivers.

05/22/2019

It is graduation time for medical students, residents, and fellows! Help set new physicians on the right path by gifting this book. Contract principles are not taught by the majority of medical training institutions and the information is so crucial to help doctors enter into their first post-training contracts.

A handbook for doctors at all stages of practice.The majority of American medical schools do not provide any formal education with regard to signing a contract to provide medical services. Despite the lengthy medical training process, the skills and language required for physicians to protect the...

05/14/2019

"With 50 to 100 job offers to choose from, the nation’s future doctors are headed for hospital employment and other locations where they will work for somebody else rather than start their careers as independent physicians."

Final-year medical resident physicians are headed for hospital employment and other locations where they will work for somebody else rather than start their careers as independent physicians, Merritt Hawkins says in a new survey.