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Prepayment Health Care Plan Enabling Acts - Are Their Restrictive Features Constitutional?, John M. Campfield

Duquesne Law Review

Illness is something which afflicts the rich as well as the poor, the affluent as well as the downtrodden. It does not choose its host according to social position, educational background, or economic status. In this century the medical sciences and the medical professions have minimized the hazards of illness. Yet the costs of preventing or curing illness, and the financial burden placed upon the victim, persists and grows.

Physicians & Surgeons - Malpractice - Standard Of Care, David L. Gilmore

Duquesne Law Review

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has held that the "locality rule" in regard to the standard of care of physicians and surgeons is no longer applicable.

Brune v. Belinkoff, ___ Mass. ___, 235 N.E.2d 793 (1968).