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Certificates Of Public Advantage: A Valuable Tool Or Diminishing Allure?, Abdur Rahman Amin
Certificates Of Public Advantage: A Valuable Tool Or Diminishing Allure?, Abdur Rahman Amin
Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice
No abstract provided.
Autism And Access To Healthcare, Amanda Forbes
Autism And Access To Healthcare, Amanda Forbes
Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice
No abstract provided.
The Thinning Blue Line: Ptsd Benefits For Law Enforcement In Minnesota, Caleb Wootan
The Thinning Blue Line: Ptsd Benefits For Law Enforcement In Minnesota, Caleb Wootan
Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice
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The Surprising Harms Hidden Within The No Surprises Act, Madeleine Amick-Kehoe
The Surprising Harms Hidden Within The No Surprises Act, Madeleine Amick-Kehoe
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
Procedural Due Process And Intramural Hospital Dispute Resolution Mechanisms: The Texas Advance Directives Act, Thaddeus Pope
Procedural Due Process And Intramural Hospital Dispute Resolution Mechanisms: The Texas Advance Directives Act, Thaddeus Pope
Faculty Scholarship
Increasingly, clinicians and commentators have been calling for the establishment of special adjudicatory dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve intractable medical futility disputes. As a leading model to follow, policymakers both around the United States and around the world have been looking to the conflict resolution provisions in the 1999 Texas Advance Directives Act (TADA).
In this article, I provide a complete and thorough review of the purpose, history, and operation of TADA. I conclude that TADA is a commendable attempt to balance the competing goals of efficiency and fairness in the resolution of these time-sensitive, life-and-death conflicts. But TADA is …
Physicians And Safe Harbor Legal Immunity, Thaddeus Pope
Physicians And Safe Harbor Legal Immunity, Thaddeus Pope
Faculty Scholarship
Professor Sandra Johnson has identified what she calls physician’s “bad law” claims. In some circumstances, physicians perceive that there is significant legal risk in doing what they think is clinically appropriate. In response, physicians sometimes take a medically inappropriate course of action, because it appears safer. For example, physicians might feel intimidated by aggressively enforced drug control laws. In response, they may under-treat patients’ pain to avoid perceived (and real) threats of investigation, discipline, or criminal prosecution. In short, well-meaning laws sometimes have the unintended side-effect of incentivizing physicians to do “bad” things.
Johnson identifies three responses to physicians’ “bad …