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Medical Paternalism And The Rule Of Law: A Reply To Dr. Relman, Charles Baron Aug 2013

Medical Paternalism And The Rule Of Law: A Reply To Dr. Relman, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

In this Article, Professor Baron challenges the position taken recently by Dr. Arnold Relman in this journal that the 1977 Saikewicz decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts was incorrect in calling for routine judicial resolution of decisions whether to provide life-prolonging treatment to terminally ill incompetent patients. First, Professor Baron argues that Dr. Relman's position that doctors should make such decisions is based upon an outmoded, paternalistic view of the doctor-patient relationship. Second, he points out the importance of guaranteeing to such decisions the special qualities of process which characterize decision making by courts and which are not …


Fetal Research: The Question In The States, Charles H. Baron Aug 2013

Fetal Research: The Question In The States, Charles H. Baron

Charles H. Baron

This article is based on a paper delivered at the Third National Symposium on Genetics and the Law in Boston, April 1984.


Kicking Ohio Medicaid Recipients When They Are Down: How Ohio's Third Party Liability Medicaid Statute Violates Federal Law As Interpreted By Ahlborn, Kelly Voyles Jan 2013

Kicking Ohio Medicaid Recipients When They Are Down: How Ohio's Third Party Liability Medicaid Statute Violates Federal Law As Interpreted By Ahlborn, Kelly Voyles

Cleveland State Law Review

This Note argues that Ohio’s Medicaid third party liability statute must either be invalidated by the Ohio Supreme Court or repealed by the Ohio General Assembly. This Note then goes on to argue that the Ohio General Assembly must amend its Medicaid third party liability statute to require settlement allocation before ODJFS can recover the medical payments it made on behalf of Ohio Medicaid recipients. Finally, this Note argues that Ohio should also amend its Medicaid third party liability statute to require that the parties come to an allocation agreement themselves or, if that proves impossible, to require a judicial …


Beinor V. Industrial Claims Appeals Office, Emma S. Blumer Jan 2013

Beinor V. Industrial Claims Appeals Office, Emma S. Blumer

NYLS Law Review

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