Eating Disorders and Legal Issues: A Conversation with Two Physicians in the Trenches

Laura F. Fryan, Partner, Brouse McDowell, speaks to Nicole Cifra and Taylor Starr, physicians at the Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center, about the intersection of the law and the practice of medicine when it comes to treating patients with eating disorders. They discuss legal issues related to determining inpatient versus outpatient treatment, guardianships for adults, the concept of “treating over objection,” and treating children and adolescents. Dr. Cifra, MD, MPH is an Adolescent Medicine Fellow at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and Dr. Starr, DO, MPH is an assistant professor of pediatrics and medical director of Golisano’s Eating Disorder Program. Read Laura’s in-depth interview with Drs. Cifra and Starr in this May 2021 PG Briefing. From the Children’s Health Affinity Group of AHLA’s Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Practice Group.Essential Legal Updates, Now in AudioAHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal EducationLearn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.