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Save Thousands Of Lives Every Year: Resuscitate The Peer Review Privilege, Alan G. Williams
Save Thousands Of Lives Every Year: Resuscitate The Peer Review Privilege, Alan G. Williams
Journal of Law and Health
Doctors make mistakes—preventable medical mistakes—that kill or seriously injure patients. The best way to reduce these preventable errors is through a medical peer review process typically referred to as a "morbidity and mortality conference." However, over the past twenty years, federal and state courts, state legislatures, and state voters have effectively gutted the morbidity and mortality conference (M&M) as a remedial and preventative tool, resulting in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths every year. Doctors need our help restoring the effectiveness of M&Ms. Congress has created the means to do so; now, all the courts need do is use it. …
Provider Liability And Medical Identity Theft: Can I Get Your (Insurance) Number?, Thomas Clifford
Provider Liability And Medical Identity Theft: Can I Get Your (Insurance) Number?, Thomas Clifford
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
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The Heartbreak Of Not Making Automated External Defibrillators Available For Public Use, Samuel D. Hodge Jr., Daria Koscielniak
The Heartbreak Of Not Making Automated External Defibrillators Available For Public Use, Samuel D. Hodge Jr., Daria Koscielniak
University of Miami Law Review
An automated external defibrillator (AED) is one of the greatest advancements in defibrillator technology in the past several decades. Its purpose is to treat sudden cardiac arrest, the leading cause of death in this country. An AED checks the heart’s rhythm and will dispatch an electric jolt when needed to reestablish the organ’s normal electrical pattern. The magic of this portable device is that anyone can use it and it is relatively inexpensive to purchase. Studies have shown that access to AEDs can improve the odds of surviving a cardiac arrhythmia outside of the hospital and the American Heart Association …
The Affordable Care Act, Experience Rating, And The Problem Of Non-Vaccination, Eric Esshaki
The Affordable Care Act, Experience Rating, And The Problem Of Non-Vaccination, Eric Esshaki
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Caveat
Polio, the whooping cough, and the mumps, among many other communicable diseases, were once prevalent in communities within the developed world and killed millions of people.1 The advent of vaccinations contained or eradicated several of these diseases.2 However, these diseases still exist in the environment3 and are making a comeback in the United States.4 Their persistence is directly attributable to the rising trend among parents refusing to vaccinate their children.5 One proposed solution to this problem is to hold parents liable in tort when others are harmed by their failure to vaccinate. Another proposed solution argues that parents should pay …
Case No. 14 - Pprom, New York Law School
Case No. 14 - Pprom, New York Law School
Anonymous Closed Medical Liability Cases
Anonymous Closed Medical Liability Case - PPROM
Case No. 26 - Apls, New York Law School
Case No. 26 - Apls, New York Law School
Anonymous Closed Medical Liability Cases
Anonymous Closed Medical Liability Case - APLS