TELE-HEALTH AND MEDICINAL CANNABIS CLINIC

A service to complex patients with complex medical problems where medicinal cannabis has a proven beneficial effect. All patients/carers will be expected to be referred by the patient’s regular GP with a Full Health Summary and will be expected to comply with the monitoring and supervisory conditions to start a medicinal cannabis trial.

General Practice Medicine

Understanding the complexities that GP’s face from regulatory issues, litigation issues, employment issues, Bullying, burnout, and many other demons that plague the profession, Navin is able to identify the issues quickly and offer options for ways forward.

MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE LITIGATION

With extensive experience in litigation in South Africa and Queensland, Navin is able to advise and assist with case management of complex medico-legal cases. He also advises doctors independently of their indemnity insurers about their rights and protections as per their indemnity insurance contracts.

VEXATIOUS NOTIFICATIONS, Defamation & Image Rights

Maintaining the integrity of your public image is an inseparable part of your financial profile and professional image, whether you’re an intern, or a GP, or a Hospital. Protecting your privacy and your public image from slander and libel is only one side of the coin; negotiating clinical appointments, professional contracts, and clinical risk is the other. Navin advises on both, offering litigation and dispute resolution, defamation (pre and post publication), and other image protection mechanisms—all so you can amplify and control the way you want the world to see you.

eMERGENCY mEDICINE

Advising health professionals and institutions about risks, risk management, risk mitigation as seen from an Emergency Medicine practitioner in the trenches as well as a litigator across several jurisdictions.

MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION

Demystifying medico-legal law is in itself a creative practice. It requires finesse, strategic understanding, and, in many ways, empathy. At the end of the day, medicolegal matters are profoundly personal. In such matters, mediation or arbitration almost always yields the most fulfilling results. However, should the occasion arise, Navin is more than prepared to move into litigation. From doctors, health departments, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics and many patients, many potential litigation matters have been resolved.

LIABILITY & RISK

Whether you run a theater, GP surgery, or emergency department, all businesses need to minimize their legal liability and risk. Navin can assess your medico-legal risk and advise on risk reduction from a medical practice perspective.

PLANT MEDICINES

A keen interest in natural sciences and plant medicines within a Western Practice of family medicine and emergency medicine has led to a desire to embark on a postgraduate study of select indigenous plant medicines, their efficacy, risks, therapeutic potential and ability to benefit indigenous communities from where this knowledge is harvested.

Gumbi-Gumbi, Kunzea and a many other Australian indigenous plants have incredible medicinal effects.

Exploring the remote reaches of the world in search of indigenous plant knowledge is a long term project that has much work and planning still to go.

mEDICAL EDUCATION

On the Hoof teaching is part and parcel of the job of Senior Medical Officer in a an accredited teaching training Emergency Department. Navin has recently been appointed a tutor and accredited teacher status at the University of South Wales- UK as part of their post graduate Expedition Medicine Diploma.

Navin is in the process of putting together a teaching series of webinars related to interesting and relevant medico-legal topics.

BULLYING WITHIN THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY

The Health industry has been shown to have many toxic areas that are harmful to health practitioners and their patients. Bullying in all its forms is wrong and actionable. From vexatious notifications to administrative sabotage to sexual discrimination. Physical threats and psychological subjugation have proven to be deadly to health practitioners in more ways than one.

BUSINESS STRATEGY

The options available to doctors to run their financial and professional affairs is complex and expensive. Everything from Self Managed Super Funds to Trusts to Limited Liability Companies and partnerships all have their own individual benefits and risks. The risks facing medical professionals these days means bankruptcy planning is not just an idea but a necessity. This is an interesting area with many special considerations peculiar to doctors and in particular IMG and foreign doctors where a person has international assets. In this regard, Navin only provides professional advice to doctors and upon being briefed by an attorney in South Africa.