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Regulating Black-Box Medicine, W. Nicholson Price Ii Dec 2017

Regulating Black-Box Medicine, W. Nicholson Price Ii

Michigan Law Review

Data drive modern medicine. And our tools to analyze those data are growing ever more powerful. As health data are collected in greater and greater amounts, sophisticated algorithms based on those data can drive medical innovation, improve the process of care, and increase efficiency. Those algorithms, however, vary widely in quality. Some are accurate and powerful, while others may be riddled with errors or based on faulty science. When an opaque algorithm recommends an insulin dose to a diabetic patient, how do we know that dose is correct? Patients, providers, and insurers face substantial difficulties in identifying high-quality algorithms; they …


Offsetting Risks, Ariel Porat Nov 2007

Offsetting Risks, Ariel Porat

Michigan Law Review

Under prevailing tort law, an injurer who must choose between Course of Action A, which creates a risk of 500 (there is a probability of .1 that a harm of 5000 will result), and Course of Action B, which creates a risk of 400 (there is a probability of.] that a harm of 4000 will result), and who negligently opts for the former will be held liable for the entire harm of 5000 that materializes. This full liability forces the injurer to pay damages that are five times higher than would be necessary to internalize the risk of 100 that …


The Real Ethic Of Death And Dying, Norman L. Cantor May 1996

The Real Ethic Of Death And Dying, Norman L. Cantor

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Peter Singer, Rethinking Life and Death


Corporations-Right To Practice Optometry Through Licensed Employees, A. E. Anderson S.Ed. May 1948

Corporations-Right To Practice Optometry Through Licensed Employees, A. E. Anderson S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Defendant, an Oregon corporation engaged in a general optical business, employed in each of its stores a registered optometrist as manager. The optometrists were paid a flat salary and made examinations free of charge, whether eyeglasses were later purchased from defendant or not. The state commenced a proceeding to oust defendant of its corporate franchise on the ground that it was unlawfully engaged in the practice of optometry. The trial court dismissed the proceedings. On appeal, held, reversed. Because of the confidential relationship which exists between practitioner and patient, optometry must be classed as a profession, and it is …