From Littler: Governors and public health officials across the country have implemented stringent measures to help contain the spread of COVID-19, such as safer at home and face covering mandates. Some jurisdictions also require employers to screen the health of employees, often as they begin a shift. These health screening steps, including temperature checks, have…
Category: Healthcare
New York and New Jersey Release COVID-19 Exposure Apps
Joseph J. Lazzarotti writes: New York and New Jersey release “COVID Alert NY” and “COVID Alert NJ,” apps designed to alert their users when they have been exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19. These apps follow those released in Pennsylvania and Delaware and are soon to be joined by Connecticut. The states hope to enhance their…
Cosmetic surgeon commits professional misconduct and privacy breaches: disciplinary committee
Bernise Carolino reports: A discipline committee has made a finding of professional misconduct in relation to a doctor whose cosmetic surgery clinic implemented a surveillance system that reached private areas where patients would undress. In Ontario (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario) v. Jugenburg, 2020 ONCPSD 40, a Toronto-based physician who owned and practised at…
NZ: Medical student’s career up in the air after letting her flatmate secretly watch a surgery
Andre Chumko reports: A medical student has been barred from multiple district health boards after she let her flatmate watch a cardiac surgery at Wellington Regional Hospital. On Saturday, Capital & Coast DHB said it had concluded its investigation into an incident in August this year, where a member of the public inappropriately accessed the hospital…