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Defining The Role Of Managed Care In Workers' Compensation, Dean Hashimoto
Defining The Role Of Managed Care In Workers' Compensation, Dean Hashimoto
Dean M. Hashimoto
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Informed Consent And Patients' Rights In Japan, Robert B. Leflar
Informed Consent And Patients' Rights In Japan, Robert B. Leflar
Robert B Leflar
This article analyzes the development of the concept of informed consent in the context of the culture and economics of Japanese medicine, and locates that development within the framework of the nation's civil law system. Part II sketches the cultural foundations of medical paternalism in Japan; explores the economic incentives (many of them administratively directed) that have sustained physicians' traditional dominant roles; and describes the judiciary's hesitancy to challenge physicians' professional discretion. Part III delineates the forces testing the paternalist model: the undermining of the physicians' personal knowledge of their patients that accompanies the shift from neighborhood clinic to high-tech …
The Future Role Of Managed Care And Capitation In Workers' Compensation, Dean M. Hashimoto
The Future Role Of Managed Care And Capitation In Workers' Compensation, Dean M. Hashimoto
Dean M. Hashimoto
No abstract provided.