Opinion: NJ ‘Patient Protection Act’ Could Keep You from Getting the Best Care June 26, 2019 Robert Field, JD, PhD, a professor in the Kline School of Law and the Dornsife School of Public Health, authored a June 23 opinion article for NorthJersey.com about a bill that is moving quickly through the New Jersey legislature that would impose major new bureaucratic requirements on hospitals, physicians and other health care providers who transfer or refer patients for services outside the state. View story