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Health Law and Policy

Cleveland State University

1958

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Diagnosis And Treatment Of The Modern Backache, A. W. Humphries, C. E. Wasmuth Jan 1958

Diagnosis And Treatment Of The Modern Backache, A. W. Humphries, C. E. Wasmuth

Cleveland State Law Review

There are two reasonably clear-cut forms of backache that lend themselves to a reasonably straight-forward form of treatment. These are (1) the ruptured intervertebral disc and (2) the degenerated intervertebral disc. In both instances, once a diagnosis can be reasonably made, treatment is at first conservative, and this form of treatment frequently issuccessful. In the absence of success, an operative procedure is available which offers reasonable hope of correction of the difficulty.

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Secondary Effects Of Trauma: (Pain) Sympathetic Dystrophies, Louis W. Lewis Jan 1958

Secondary Effects Of Trauma: (Pain) Sympathetic Dystrophies, Louis W. Lewis

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Sympathetic Dystrophy or causalgia (pain) is a disability following traumatic injury. It consists of burning pain, glossy sweating, skin changes, and exquisite tenderness caused by tissue damage involving the sympathetic nervous system. Treatment consists of "blocking" the sympathetic nerves to the area by injecting drugs or by surgical repair. As the item of "pain and suffering" always is a major factor in a lawyer's estimate of the proper amount of a damage award, the medical analysis here presented is of wide interest and utility to lawyers as well as to physicians.

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The Mallet Finger Injury, Donald R. Pratt Jan 1958

The Mallet Finger Injury, Donald R. Pratt

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Mallet finger is a permanent deformity caused by injury to the distal phalanx of a finger. Commonly seen in industrial accidents and in baseball players, the extending tendon is pulled off the bone of the terminal phalanx. Treatment consists of simple splinting (illustrated) in mild trauma, or surgical intervention when large bony fragments have been pulled off. If left untreated, some degree of drop finger ultimately develops. This disability varies in degree. Joint stiffness and deformity may result. A method of surgical treat- ment of more severe injuries is described.The chief importance of this injury, to the lawyer, is in …

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Premenstrual Tension, Medicine And Law, Irwin N. Perr Jan 1958

Premenstrual Tension, Medicine And Law, Irwin N. Perr

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The premenstrual tension syndrome is one characterized by emotional and physiologic symptoms occurring in the period preceding menstruation. A medical re-evaluation and description for the attorney may serve to clarify a subject full of misunderstandings, superstitions and false concepts.

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Standards Of Care In Anesthesiology, Carl E. Wasmuth Jan 1958

Standards Of Care In Anesthesiology, Carl E. Wasmuth

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Diplomates of the American Board of Anesthesiology must meet the rigid requirements of this specialty. Anesthesiologists in all sections of the country must meet the same requirements. Hence, the anesthesiologist in a small town is as well qualified as the anesthesiologist practicing in a large city. With this basic premise in mind, it is not difficult, therefore, to set down the medical standards of care in anesthesiology - which in turn determine the legal standards of care in this specialty.

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Non-Penetrating Wounds Of The Chest, Harry W. Hale Jr., J. Walter Martin Jan 1958

Non-Penetrating Wounds Of The Chest, Harry W. Hale Jr., J. Walter Martin

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The heart may be seriously injured by compression of the chest by a steering wheel in automobile accidents or in other injuries by non-penetrating blows to the chest. These injuries vary from a simple bruise of the heart to actual laceration of heart muscle and heart valves. The changes may be identified by electrocardiograph and changes in heart rhythm. Attorneys should make certain that any injury by a blow to the chest is studied by a cardiologist, using not one but a series of electrocardiographs, as even seemingly harmless blows to the chest may result in injuries equivalent to heart …

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Frontal Injuries Of The Skull, Paul H. Crandall Jan 1958

Frontal Injuries Of The Skull, Paul H. Crandall

Cleveland State Law Review

Results of injuries to the frontal parts of the skull are often serious but treatable by prompt surgery. Various types of fractures are common. Most dangerous is the possibility of infection in the interior cavities of the skull. X-ray study of such injuries is practically mandatory. Failure to give prompt and proper treatment often results in serious complications later. Any injury to the frontal parts of the skull should be viewed by attorneys as serious, with strong probability of future complications except perhaps when prompt medical attention of highly modern character has forestalled some of the possible complications.

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Lethal Lesions In Aircraft Accidents, H. G. Mosely Jan 1958

Lethal Lesions In Aircraft Accidents, H. G. Mosely

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While most aircraft accident fatalities result from multiple lethal injuries, a significant number are caused by single identifiable lesions such as internal vascular tears (e.g., hemorrhage) especially in the brain area, which prompt surgical action may prevent from being fatal.Lawyers investigating such cases should ascertain whether or not medical treatment was prompt and skillful enough in the particular circumstances, and whether the particular injury (i.e., lesion) which actually caused death was identified and treated.

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Epilepsy And The Law, Irwin N. Perr Jan 1958

Epilepsy And The Law, Irwin N. Perr

Cleveland State Law Review

Epilepsy is one of the few medical conditions which have been singled out both in common law and in statutory law. In addition, epilepsy has become increasingly important as it may be a sequel to head injuries, and thus the lawyer dealing with personal injury cases must have some acquaintance with epilepsy and its problems.The first part of this paper will be a simplified description of epilepsy with emphasis on those aspects which may be of some importance to the law. This will be followed by discussion of epilepsy in relation to various laws on marriage, sterilization, automobile driving, and …

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A Study Of Fatal Trauma, Earl B. Sanborn Jan 1958

A Study Of Fatal Trauma, Earl B. Sanborn

Cleveland State Law Review

Treatment of the complications of the injured patient is frequently more important than the injury itself. Such complications as shock, traumatic wet lung, atelectases, etc., are a direct result of the injury. Patients may suffer obvious severe trauma, only to die of the unrecognized and untreated complication. Postmortem examinations establish the nature, extent and effect of trauma-i.e., causation, from the lawyer's as well as the physician's point of view.In all cases of death following traumatic accident, the lawyer should investigate the unapparent as well as the obvious injuries; ordinarily by use of autopsy. In a surprising number of cases inadequate …

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Relation Of Trauma, Disease, And Law - Panel Discussion, Joseph A. Cox, Alfred Koerner, S. Charles Franco, Kenneth H. Macgregor Jan 1958

Relation Of Trauma, Disease, And Law - Panel Discussion, Joseph A. Cox, Alfred Koerner, S. Charles Franco, Kenneth H. Macgregor

Cleveland State Law Review

A symposium on "Relation of Trama, Disease, and Law." The symposium took place under the auspices of the Amerian Board of Legal Medicine Inc., in conjucntion with the sesquicentennial meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York.

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