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Torts-Res Ipsa Loquitur In Medical Malpractice, Martin J. Glasser

West Virginia Law Review

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Standard Of Care In Legal Malpractice, Martin T. Fletcher

Indiana Law Journal

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Legal Problems In Donations Of Human Tissues To Medical Science, Author Unidentified

Vanderbilt Law Review

On December 3, 1967, the first human heart transplant was performed by Dr. Christian Barnard in Capetown, South Africa.' Although the achievement received a great deal of attention, it is clear that its principal import is in the perfection of new surgical techniques, rather than in conceptual innovation. Organ transplants have been performed for many years, from the simplest, a blood transfusion,to more complex and hazardous therapeutics, such as skin grafts and kidney transplants. Anatomically, the heart is no more important or necessary an organ than the kidney or the liver, but common subjective notions of the heart's central function …

Discovery Rule: Accrual Of Cause Of Action For Medical Malpractice

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Expert Opinion From The Defendant-Physician

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Malpractice--Sterilization Operation, James Alan Harris

West Virginia Law Review

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Limitations In Professional Malpractice Actions - Gaddis V. Smith; Atkins V. Crosland

Maryland Law Review

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Res Ipsa Loquitur In Medical Malpractice, Rudolf F. Binder

Cleveland State Law Review

The "Cloak of Protection encompassing the physician in the practice of his profession" is no longer to be taken for granted. Recent decisions in Alaska, California, Louisiana, Oregon, and Wisconsin have swept aside the traditional limitations in the use of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine. They impose all but strict liability upon the medical profession for mistakes occurring during treatment or surgery.

The Injured Arthritic: His Medico-Legal Rights, Louis J. Gelber

Cleveland State Law Review

Plaintiffs in general fare rather poorly in litigation cases when trauma is responsible for the aggravation of their arthritic condition. The inadequate rewards are usually due to the poor presentation of the claimant's case to the judge and jury. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate some of the disabling results that trauma inflicts on victims of arthritis of the spinal column, and to discuss adjudication of these cases, as well as suggested therapy by means of x-rays.

Book Review, James K. Gaynor

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing Problems in Hospital Law, Health Law Center, 1968

Medical Witness' Treatment By Courts, Monroe E. Trout

Cleveland State Law Review

An attempt has been made to review what the courts have recently said about medical witnesses and their testimony. Many questions can be asked about particular decisions, and indeed, an entire article could be written about individual cited cases. The only purpose of this paper is to review the recent decisions in order to give you a panoramic view of the type of questions which the courts are being asked to answer about the medical witness and his testimony.

Introduction, Donald W. Dowd

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Perspective For Considering The Moral, Legal, And Ethical Problems Arising From Advances In Medical Science, William Likoff

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Dying Patient, The Doctor, And The Law, J. Russell Elkinton

Villanova Law Review

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The Legal Problems Of Organ Transplantation, Emile Zola Berman

Villanova Law Review

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Between Life And Death: Ethical And Moral Issues Involved In Recent Medical Advances, Thomas A. Wassmer

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Paradoxical Preservation Of A Principle, Ralph B. Potter Jr.

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Doctors' Privileged Communications, Public Life, And History's Rights, Jonas B. Robitscher

Cleveland State Law Review

This article deals with two special problems in the field of confidentiality and privilege, which can be discussed together although they are not entirely related. These problems arise from a physician-patient relationship and are special by virtue of the fact that the patient has made himself a special object of public attention or public concern. The first of these is the problem of the physician who wishes to disclose information about an historical personage. The second problem is the disclosure of information by a physician concerning patients who are infamous rather than famous.

The Hospital's New Responsibility, Arthur F. Southwick

Cleveland State Law Review

The focus for this discussion is the hospital as a corporate institution and its liability for injuries caused a patient or visitor. The fundamental question is: What legal duties does the hospital and its personnel owe the patient or the visitor? To attempt an answer to this question one must first have an understanding of the role and nature of a hospital in modern society.

Prepayment Health Care Plan Enabling Acts - Are Their Restrictive Features Constitutional?, John M. Campfield

Duquesne Law Review

Illness is something which afflicts the rich as well as the poor, the affluent as well as the downtrodden. It does not choose its host according to social position, educational background, or economic status. In this century the medical sciences and the medical professions have minimized the hazards of illness. Yet the costs of preventing or curing illness, and the financial burden placed upon the victim, persists and grows.

Physicians & Surgeons - Malpractice - Standard Of Care, David L. Gilmore

Duquesne Law Review

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has held that the "locality rule" in regard to the standard of care of physicians and surgeons is no longer applicable.

Brune v. Belinkoff, ___ Mass. ___, 235 N.E.2d 793 (1968).