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61 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1505 (2019-2020)
Telemedicine and Malpractice: Creating Uniformity at the National Level

handle is hein.journals/wmlr61 and id is 1546 raw text is: TELEMEDICINE AND MALPRACTICE: CREATING UNIFORMITY AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ..................................... 1506 I. PROBLEMS PRESENTED BY LACK OF UNIFORMITY IN TELEMEDICINE MALPRACTICE .......................... 1509 A. Differences: Standards of Care .................... 1510 1. The Locality Rule vs. National Standard of Care .... 1510 2. In-Person Care vs. Telemedicine Care .............. 1513 B. Establishing the Doctor-Patient Relationship ........ 1517 II. UNIFORMITY OF THE TELEMEDICINE STANDARD OF CARE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP ................................... 1519 A. The Appropriate Standard of Care for Telemedicine ... 1520 1. The Appropriateness of the National Reasonable-Physician Standard ................. 1521 2. Telemedicine vs. In-Person Care: The Propriety of Hawaii's Approach ............................ 1523 B. Uniform Determination of the Physician-Patient Relationship ................................... 1525 III. INITIATING THE CHANGES AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL ...... 1526 A. The Commerce Clause as a Method of Creating Uniform ity .................................... 1527 B. The Spending Power as a Method of Creating Uniform ity .................................... 1529 CONCLUSION ....................................... 1535 1505

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