Organizations

1. Michigan State Medical Society Home Page
   This site is included as a local resource. It provides nothing on medical liability, at least at present.
2. The Health Care Liability Alliance
   Numerous useful links, updated often.
3. The Health Administration Responsibility Project
   Harvey Frey, M.D. is a retired radiologist and a recently-graduated lawyer, and he has put a lot of energy into developing this site and to pursuing his agenda seeking to remove statutory immunities from liability on the part of managed care organizations. He has some good points to make about the responsibility that goes along with the economics of medical practice in a managed care environment.
4. American Health Lawyers Association - The former National Health Lawyers Association and American Academy of Healthcare Attorneys have now merged their organizations and combined their web sites. This is an excellent reference for general health care resources.
5. Healthcare Financial Management Association -- An organization representing over 34,000 financial professionals employed by hospitals and other health care organizations.
6. Harvard Risk Management Foundation -- A joint service of the Foundation and the Controlled Risk Insurance Company, which covers the Harvard medical institutions and their employees. Its Risk Management Library is a useful reference for lawyers and physicians, although some of the documents are available only to CRICO insureds.

Services

1. Intrepid Resources
   This company offers to provide assistance to health care providers in risk management, inservice education, malpractice and liability claims management services, and other areas.
2. Medical Risk Management, Inc.
   Providing continuing education and risk management services for physicians and health care providers.
3. American Physicians Assurance -- Providing coverage to physicians in Michigan and other states. Formerly Michigan Physicians Mutual Liability Company and MICOA, now operated as a subsidiary of APCapital.
4. ProNational Insurance Companies -- Another insurer which started as a Michigan-only member-owned company but now also writes in Illinios, Ohio, and other states; formerly PICOM Insurance Company.
5. The Doctors' Company
   A California professional liability insurer.
6. Colorado Physicians Insurance Company
   Offers the most comprehensive online set of reference material, sample forms, and practice management material available from any professional liability insurer.
7. American Medical Forensic Specialists, Inc.
8. Price Waterhouse Managed Care -- An outstanding site, offered by a division of a Big Six accounting firm. PWMC provides consulting services in managed care to medical providers, payors, and suppliers.
9. Physicians Reciprocal Insurance -- An insurer which started in New York but now covers many states.
10. Reid Psychiatry -- We do not normally link to pages posted by expert witnesses, but this one deserves a look. This is not simply a brochure site; it provides substantive content in the form of a Psychiatry and Law Update, with articles on a number of topics in the field of forensic psychiatry.

Law firms

1. McMillen & Rinehart, P.A. - An Orlando, Florida plaintiff's firm
2. Bricker & Eckler, LLP - Columbus, Ohio. This firm provides a number of excellent resources on health care topics.

Publications

1. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
   A publication of Duke University Press
2. Law and the Physician: A Practical Guide -- Authors: Edward P. Richards and Katharine C. Rathbun
   A full book, published on the Web in Folio Views format. A guide to the law for the physician. Prof. Richards is affiliated with the Public Health Law Project at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
3. Physicians Guide to Michigan Law
   An excellent new resource posted by the Michigan State Medical Society with the assistance of the Detroit law firm of Kerr, Russell & Weber.

Medical reference sites

1. AMA Physician Database - Allows for searches of physicians by name, location, or specialty. The AMA's offering is free, and includes osteopathic physicians.
2. ABMS Certified Doctors - allows searches for board-certified specialists
3. The Medical Matrix
   An extensive resource site, listing a number of web references by medical specialty. Its listing of online medical journals is comprehensive.
4. Health Policy Information
   Posted by the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension
5. Doctor's Guide to the Internet
   Posted by the PSL Consulting Group. Includes an e-mail notification service.
6. The Doctor's Page
   Organized by topic; includes "Humor in Medicine" and "Quotes on Medicine and Life"
7. MedSite
   Bills itself as the "premier medical search engine"
8. Health A to Z
   Self-described as "The search engine for health and medicine". An excellent collection of links, well organized and annotated.
9. The Merck Manual
   A traditional comprehensive source of medical information, now online.
10. MEDEM
    A "supersite" providing consumer access to health care information, emphasizing reliable "society-credentialed" sources.
11. Healtheon/WebMD
    No one can ignore this behemoth, the Microsoft of medical sites.

    The following provide
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12. HealthGate
    A very comprehensive service, providing some free and much paid content in a number of substantive medical areas.
13. Medscape
    According to its introductory page, Medscape is "a free service for health professionals and interested consumers, features thousands of full-text, peer-reviewed articles, medical news, free Medline, and interactive quizzes. Updated daily."
14. Helix
    The Healthcare Education and Learning Information Exchange. Its About page states "Sponsored and managed by the Glaxo Wellcome Healthcare Education Department, HELIX on the World Wide Web offers point-and-click access to a wealth of health information on the Internet as well as the Web sites of a number of state and national medical, pharmacy and nursing associations."
15. PubMed
    Offered by the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine. Includes links to publishers' sites for full-text journals. Initially 24 journals available, some by subscription only.
16. Loansome Doc, a document delivery services available to health care providers only.

General medico-legal sites