title: Team Physicians, Sports Medicine, and the Law: An Update.
abstract: The recognition of sports medicine and promulgation of practice guidelines for team physicians will push general medical malpractice standards to evolve into a more specialized standard of care for those who practice in this area. To the extent that practicing medicine in the sports context involves calculations that do not arise in typical medical practice, the sports medicine community can help elucidate those issues and create appropriate guidelines that can serve to inform athlete-patients and educate courts. Doing so will help best set the terms by which those who practice sports medicine are judged.
authors.affiliation: Center for Sport and the Law, University of Baltimore School of Law, 1401 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: dkoller@ubalt.edu.
authors.forename: Dionne L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Koller
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000628:therapy; D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008318:Malpractice; D055553:Prescription Drugs; D013178:Sports Medicine / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014195:Travel; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D055553:Prescription Drugs
keywords: Athletes; Medical malpractice; Sports medicine; Team physicians; Tort law