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Michael H. Cohen, Esq. is available to appear on television / radio / webcasts on short notice (Los Angeles area or National), as well as in documentaries, webinars, and in person.
 
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(Three One Zero) 749.4029
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Television and radio appearances include: Discovery Health Channel ("Examining the Alternatives"); Total Health Talk (LA cable); The Alternative Medicine Show (D.C. cable); and The American Health Network, The Christy Clark Show (CKNW Radio Canada), Gary Null's Natural Living ("Legal Boundaries of Alternative Medicine"); Orange County Now ("Alternative Medicine"); Here's To Your Health with Deborah Ray and Ronald Carrow, M.D. ("Complementary Care", "Children's Rights", "Informed Consent"); and Beyond Wellness (CAM Law).  Magazine/newspapers include: click here

Quick Biography

Michael H. Cohen is a lawyer who advises clients on strategic legal issues at the intersection of business, health care, technology, and spirituality. While on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, Michael helped Harvard hospital integrate complementary medicine into conventional care. He is the author of several books that look at how the public's pursuit of health & wellness has changed -- and how both the law and the medical profession are struggling to respond to that change.

“Even the diehards who still say this is all bunk are being forced to confront these issues,” Michael told Applied Neurology, “because if patients are using these therapies, then a responsible clinician has to know how to converse intelligently, dispassionately, neutrally, and in a way that is mindful of legal and ethical obligations.”

 

Topics
of informed opinion
or analysis can include:

•  Regulatory efforts to accommodate complementary medicine.

•  Alternative caregivers' legal and ethical obligations.

•  How to talk your doctor about alternative therapies and address medical and institutional concerns so as to get your needs met.

•  The extent of your right to keep your dietary supplements (such as St. John’s wort or gingko) as an in-patient.

•  The obscure institutional nooks and crannies through which you might get your hospital to offer you alternative therapies (such as acupuncture for pain relief).

•  How to enlist the help of professional organizations in your quest for holistic healthcare when dealing with a mainstream medical organization such as a hospital.

•  Ways to overcome liability concerns when you try to coordinate your conventional and alternative caregivers.

•  Parental liabilities that may arise when you treat your child with alternative therapies such as homeopathy for chronic ear infections, special diets and nutritional protocols, and other treatments. Can these efforts be used against you in a divorce?

•  Ways to tap into medical respect for “mind-body” therapies to give yourself a broader array of health care choices.

•  How the internet and upscale supermarkets effect the nutritional supplement industry.

•  How telemedicine is changing the face of caregiving, and blurring the once-clear relationship between doctor and patient.

•  The legal limits to health claims made by nutritional supplements.

•  The larger philosophical questions about our evolving approaches to health & wellness.

•  Our ability to reconcile science and religion.


Books By Michael H. Cohen

  • Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion (2006)
  • The Practice of Integrative Medicine: A Legal and Operation Guide (2006)
  • Legal Issues in Integrative Medicine: A Guide to Clinicians, Hospitals, and Patients (2005)
  • Future Medicine: Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation (2003)
  • Beyond Complementary Medicine: Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Health Care and Human Evolution (2000)
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine (1998)

    • More Info on Michael's Books click here
    Michael H. Cohen on Amazon.com click here
     
    		  “Snippets of the body of alternative medicine are skillfully dissected and probed by Cohen's legal scalpel in a manner that is informative and intellectually stimulating.
         For persons wishing...knowledge and understanding of the present legal environment for alternative medicine in the United States, this book is an excellent choice.”
    —     Journal of the
    American Medical Association
    Full JAMA Review (.pdf)
    “Michael's work unquestionably stands with that of other luminaries such as Rachel Naomi Remen MD, Jon Kabat-Zinn MD, and Dean Ornish, MD, who have been pioneers in this area.” — Karen E. Adams, MD, Clinical Consultant, Center for Ethics in Health Care, Oregon Health and Sciences University  


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