Chapter 4.C.1: Breach of Fiduciary Duty

For further analysis of how fiduciary principles might apply in various health care contexts, see Richard S. Saver, Physicians' Elusive Public Health Duties, 99 N.C. L. Rev. 923 (2021); Isaac D. Buck, Furthering the Fiduciary Metaphor: The Duty of Providers to the Payers of Medicare, 104 Cal. L. Rev. 1043 (2016); Dayna Bowen Matthew, Implementing American Health Care Reform: The Fiduciary Imperative, 59 Buff. L. Rev. 715, 715 (2011); Thomas L. Hafemeister & Richard M. Gulbrandsen, Jr., The Fiduciary Obligation of Physicians to "Just Say No" If an "Informed" Patient Demands Services That Are Not Medically Indicated, 39 Seton Hall L. Rev. 335 (2009); Maxwell J. Mehlman, Dishonest Medical Mistakes, 59 Vand. L. Rev. 1137 (2006); Michelle Oberman, Mothers and Doctors' Orders: Unmasking the Doctor's Fiduciary Role in Maternal-Fetal Conflicts, 94 Nw. U. L. Rev. 451 (2000).