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About the Author: Gordon Ownby
Gordon T. Ownby has served as general counsel for the Cooperative of American Physicians since 1992. Mr. Ownby earned his law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and was admitted to the California State Bar in 1987. He started his legal career at Schmid & Voiles, the organization’s dedicated law firm, that same year.

Mr. Ownby is past chair of the PIAA Corporate Counsel Section and currently represents the interests of healthcare on the Board of Directors of the Civil Justice Association of California. As a member of the California Medical Association’s Amicus Curiae Committee, Mr. Ownby promotes the development of case law affecting the rights of physicians and patients.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Ownby was a news editor at the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a legal affairs newspaper.
Medicine on Trial, Second Edition, is a compilation of more than 80 actual litigated cases, summarized by CAP’s General Counsel Gordon Ownby, and published in our monthly member newsletter as “Case of the Month.”

Each page offers unique and fascinating insights into the experience of physicians involved in court or arbitration disputes with their patients.
Since the original Medicine on Trial was published seven years ago, physicians throughout the state have been clamoring for more. Finally, here it is–free for the asking!­