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The Doctor, The Patient, And The Fda, Herbert L. Ley Jr.
The Doctor, The Patient, And The Fda, Herbert L. Ley Jr.
Cleveland State Law Review
There have been considerable charges and counter-charges the United States Food and Drug Administration's role in protecting the consumer, at least as far as the medical profession is concerned. The FDA has absolutely no intention nor desire to assume the role of the physician or to interfere with the bona fide practice of medicine. Why the complaints by some the FDA's actions on drugs, including drug labelling, drug recall and the withdrawal of certain drugs from the market, constitute attempts to interfere with the practice of medicine? It is possible that one of the reasons, and perhaps the principal one, …
Rx For Malpractice, Albert Averbach
Rx For Malpractice, Albert Averbach
Cleveland State Law Review
Every tragedy that becomes the subject of extensive coverage by the news media shortly turns into a focal point of malpractice litigation. This, of course, is inevitable and will ever be thus. Doctors for many years have been "spoon fed" stories and warnings about malpractice suits and hazards. Nothing, however, has been constructively advocated as to how this tide can be stemmed or what can be done in the face of it. Some years ago, Mark Twain wrote, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." It is our objective in this article to not only alert …