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Business Vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards For Managed Care, Wendy K. Mariner Oct 1995

Business Vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards For Managed Care, Wendy K. Mariner

Faculty Scholarship

The increased competition for a share of the market of insured patients, which arose in the wake of failed comprehensive health care reform, has provoked questions about what, if any, standards will govern new “competitive” health care organizations. Managed care arrangements, which typically shift to providers and patients some or all of the financial risk for patient care, are of special concern because they can create incentives to withhold beneficial care from patients. Of course, fee-for-service (FFS) medical practice creates incentives to provide unnecessary services, and managed care can avoid that type of harm. Still, as Edmund Pellegrino has noted, …


No Justice, No Peace: Accountability For Rape And Gender-Based Violence In The Former Yugoslavia, Diane Orentlicher Jan 1994

No Justice, No Peace: Accountability For Rape And Gender-Based Violence In The Former Yugoslavia, Diane Orentlicher

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

The Women in the Law Project of the International Human Rights Law Group (Law Group) sponsored a delegation to the former Yugoslavia from February 14 to 22, 1993. The delegation, which was also endorsed by the Bar Association of San Francisco, had two principal objectives.


Service Member Recovery For Military Medical Malpractice Under The Federal Tort Claims Act: A Judicial Response Comment., Keith B. Sieczkowski Jan 1987

Service Member Recovery For Military Medical Malpractice Under The Federal Tort Claims Act: A Judicial Response Comment., Keith B. Sieczkowski

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.


Protocols Additional To The Geneva Conventions Of 12 August 1949 Apr 1978

Protocols Additional To The Geneva Conventions Of 12 August 1949

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Prolonging Life, George P. Fletcher Jun 1967

Prolonging Life, George P. Fletcher

Washington Law Review

A physician decides not to prolong the life of a terminal patient. What are the legal consequences? Is it murder, akin to a gunman's pulling the trigger? Or is the law more sensitive? Professor Fletcher proposes that a decision to interrupt life-sustaining therapy, such as that to turn off a mechanical respirator, should be classified as an omission, not an act. He arrives at this conclusion by analyzing the common sense usages of "cause" and "permit." If the decision is an omission then the law must focus on the doctor-patient relationship to define legal consequences, allowing customary standards of the …


Prolonging Life, George P. Fletcher Jun 1967

Prolonging Life, George P. Fletcher

Washington Law Review

A physician decides not to prolong the life of a terminal patient. What are the legal consequences? Is it murder, akin to a gunman's pulling the trigger? Or is the law more sensitive? Professor Fletcher proposes that a decision to interrupt life-sustaining therapy, such as that to turn off a mechanical respirator, should be classified as an omission, not an act. He arrives at this conclusion by analyzing the common sense usages of "cause" and "permit." If the decision is an omission then the law must focus on the doctor-patient relationship to define legal consequences, allowing customary standards of the …


Prolonging Life, George P. Fletcher Jan 1967

Prolonging Life, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

A physician decides not to prolong the life of a terminal patient. What are the legal consequences? Is it murder, akin to a gunman's pulling the trigger? Or is the law more sensitive? Professor Fletcher proposes that a decision to interrupt life-sustaining therapy, such as that to turn off a mechanical respirator, should be classified as an omission, not an act. He arrives at this conclusion by analyzing the common sense usages of "cause" and "permit." If the decision is an omission then the law must focus on the doctor-patient relationship to define legal consequences, allowing customary standards of the …


Population Policies In The Sino-Soviet Bloc, W. Parker Mauldin Jul 1960

Population Policies In The Sino-Soviet Bloc, W. Parker Mauldin

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Legal Education And Lawyer-Made Law, David F. Cavers Jun 1952

Legal Education And Lawyer-Made Law, David F. Cavers

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.