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Is Law The Prescription That Can Cure Medicine?, Samuel Gorovitz
Is Law The Prescription That Can Cure Medicine?, Samuel Gorovitz
Journal of Law and Health
Now medical care has been transformed. We recognize that the human organism is a complex interaction of many different systems-respiratory, circulatory, neurological, digestive, and so on. Some of them can fail and create both problems and opportunities we did not formerly have. One of the opportunities we now have is that we can keep people alive who in an earlier era would not have survived. And one of the problems we now have is also that we can keep people alive who in an earlier era would not have survived. Some of them are kept alive with such diminished capacity …