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Georgia's Telemedicine Laws And Regulations: Protecting Against Health Care Access, Adelyn B. Boleman

Mercer Law Review

Georgia currently ranks 44th in the nation in terms of patient access to physicians. Roughly 52% of Georgia's physicians are located in five areas that serve just 38% of the state's population. However, technological advancements present opportunities to bridge the gap between physicians willing to treat patients through non-traditional means and patients simply wanting access to physicians. Telemedicine, sometimes referred to as telehealth, is generally known as the use of audio, video, and other types of data communication to exchange medical information from one site to another to connect healthcare professionals with patients. While telemedicine can extend patient access to …

An Advance Directive: The Elective, Effective Way To Be Protective Of Your Rights, Krysta Rae Tate

Mercer Law Review

Death is an eternal theme within all cultures; the Grim Reaper coming to collect a person's soul, death riding in on a pale horse, mythical characters like Hades and Thanatos. A seemingly inescapable proposition emerged over time: the nature of death is unpredictable and unavoidable. Eventually, due to changes in technology, the world's perspective on the nature of death shifted. Advancements in medical technology introduced a plethora of life-sustaining procedures, and death was no longer completely beyond a human's control.

A breakthrough in the medical means used to control the dynamic nature of death occurred when the Georgia General Assembly …