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Reverse Informed Consent: The Unreasonably Dangerous Patient, A. Samuel Oddi
Reverse Informed Consent: The Unreasonably Dangerous Patient, A. Samuel Oddi
Vanderbilt Law Review
Latrogenic injuries'-those caused by health care professionals (HCPs) in the course of treating patients-raise significant ethical, legal, and public policy issues.' With the advent of the AIDS epidemic, these issues become even more difficult when the iatrogenic injury results not from the patient's having received treatment below the professional standard of care (which is the usual grist for the malpractice mill) but from an infectious condition of the HCP. Considerable public attention has been directed to patients who have been exposed to the risk of AIDS by HIV-positive HCPs.6 It is difficult to be unmoved by the tragic example of …
Redefining Government's Role In Health Care: Is A Dose Of Competition What The Doctor Should Order?, James F. Blumstein, Frank A. Sloan
Redefining Government's Role In Health Care: Is A Dose Of Competition What The Doctor Should Order?, James F. Blumstein, Frank A. Sloan
Vanderbilt Law Review
Throughout the 1970s, the two major political parties espoused some form of national health insurance. Faced with a fiscal squeeze, however, the Carter Administration gave national health insurance a relatively low priority.The political movement for comprehensive national health insurance rests on an ideological commitment that the federal government should underwrite the cost of providing universal access to medical services. The objective is essentially redistributive in nature: equitable concerns for the disadvantaged loom as the major focus. The selective expansion of coverage to encompass those identified as needy and worthy, but only those so identified, is anathema to those who traditionally …