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Diagnosis And Treatment Of The Modern Backache, A. W. Humphries, C. E. Wasmuth Jan 1958

Diagnosis And Treatment Of The Modern Backache, A. W. Humphries, C. E. Wasmuth

Cleveland State Law Review

There are two reasonably clear-cut forms of backache that lend themselves to a reasonably straight-forward form of treatment. These are (1) the ruptured intervertebral disc and (2) the degenerated intervertebral disc. In both instances, once a diagnosis can be reasonably made, treatment is at first conservative, and this form of treatment frequently issuccessful. In the absence of success, an operative procedure is available which offers reasonable hope of correction of the difficulty.

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Standards Of Care In Anesthesiology, Carl E. Wasmuth Jan 1958

Standards Of Care In Anesthesiology, Carl E. Wasmuth

Cleveland State Law Review

Diplomates of the American Board of Anesthesiology must meet the rigid requirements of this specialty. Anesthesiologists in all sections of the country must meet the same requirements. Hence, the anesthesiologist in a small town is as well qualified as the anesthesiologist practicing in a large city. With this basic premise in mind, it is not difficult, therefore, to set down the medical standards of care in anesthesiology - which in turn determine the legal standards of care in this specialty.

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Non-Penetrating Wounds Of The Chest, Harry W. Hale Jr., J. Walter Martin Jan 1958

Non-Penetrating Wounds Of The Chest, Harry W. Hale Jr., J. Walter Martin

Cleveland State Law Review

The heart may be seriously injured by compression of the chest by a steering wheel in automobile accidents or in other injuries by non-penetrating blows to the chest. These injuries vary from a simple bruise of the heart to actual laceration of heart muscle and heart valves. The changes may be identified by electrocardiograph and changes in heart rhythm. Attorneys should make certain that any injury by a blow to the chest is studied by a cardiologist, using not one but a series of electrocardiographs, as even seemingly harmless blows to the chest may result in injuries equivalent to heart …

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Lethal Lesions In Aircraft Accidents, H. G. Mosely Jan 1958

Lethal Lesions In Aircraft Accidents, H. G. Mosely

Cleveland State Law Review

While most aircraft accident fatalities result from multiple lethal injuries, a significant number are caused by single identifiable lesions such as internal vascular tears (e.g., hemorrhage) especially in the brain area, which prompt surgical action may prevent from being fatal.Lawyers investigating such cases should ascertain whether or not medical treatment was prompt and skillful enough in the particular circumstances, and whether the particular injury (i.e., lesion) which actually caused death was identified and treated.

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The Mallet Finger Injury, Donald R. Pratt Jan 1958

The Mallet Finger Injury, Donald R. Pratt

Cleveland State Law Review

Mallet finger is a permanent deformity caused by injury to the distal phalanx of a finger. Commonly seen in industrial accidents and in baseball players, the extending tendon is pulled off the bone of the terminal phalanx. Treatment consists of simple splinting (illustrated) in mild trauma, or surgical intervention when large bony fragments have been pulled off. If left untreated, some degree of drop finger ultimately develops. This disability varies in degree. Joint stiffness and deformity may result. A method of surgical treat- ment of more severe injuries is described.The chief importance of this injury, to the lawyer, is in …

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Malpractice And The Statute Of Limitations Jul 1957

Malpractice And The Statute Of Limitations

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Radiation Injury: A Technical And Legal Survey, Andrew J. Humphrey Jan 1957

Radiation Injury: A Technical And Legal Survey, Andrew J. Humphrey

Cleveland State Law Review

In the field of radiation damage much has been written and many scientific opinions have been given. As to legal decisions,there is much to criticize from a technical point of view in the early X-ray cases, particularly in regard to the leeway allowed to physicians in treating their patients through use of a new tool. The following survey is intended to serve to give to the lawyer a basic working knowledge of the subject of radiation. With this, plus knowledge of general principles of law, common sense should enable him to get his client's point across to the judge and …

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The Pathologist And The Autopsy, Lawrence J. Mccormack Jan 1957

The Pathologist And The Autopsy, Lawrence J. Mccormack

Cleveland State Law Review

The autopsy, properly performed, remains one of the keystones of modern medicine. However, obtaining the legally required consent or authorization for a medical autopsy can be a complex, almost impossible task. Simplification of the legal requirements for consent throughout the United States would be a definite step forward for medicine, and would benefit society generally.

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Physician's View Of Whiplash Injuries Of The Neck, Paul A. Nelson Jan 1957

Physician's View Of Whiplash Injuries Of The Neck, Paul A. Nelson

Cleveland State Law Review

Whiplash injuries of the neck as the result of automobile accidents have attracted increased attention in recent years from both the medical and legal professions. The incidence of such injuries has risen steadily, paralleling the increase in the number of automobiles and in the number of accidents on our highways. Unfortunately, effective safety measures or changes in automobile design that might prevent or minimize these injuries have not yet been introduced. Because most whiplash injuries involve compensation and many entail litigation, the correct management of such cases both medically and legally is of considerable economic importance.

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Radiographic Aspects Of Whiplash Injury Of The Cervical Spine, Robert R. Wise Jan 1957

Radiographic Aspects Of Whiplash Injury Of The Cervical Spine, Robert R. Wise

Cleveland State Law Review

While the mechanism of sudden forceful flexion or extension of the neck producing injuries to the ligaments bones, and nerves of the neck has long been known, the term "whiplash injury" appears not to have been used in the medical literature until 1945 when it was first used by Davis. In his paper he analyzed 134 injuries of the cervical spine resulting from automobile accidents. Since then the term has been used to designate injuries to the neck or cervical spine which result from sudden forward or backward motion of the head, excluding the obviously catastrophic injuries resulting in complete …

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The Law Of Criminal Abortion: An Analysis Of Proposed Reforms Jan 1957

The Law Of Criminal Abortion: An Analysis Of Proposed Reforms

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Medical Evaluation Of Mental Pain And Suffering, Carl E. Wasmuth Jan 1957

Medical Evaluation Of Mental Pain And Suffering, Carl E. Wasmuth

Cleveland State Law Review

What the attorney calls "mental pain and suffering" and emotional disturbance is identified by the physician as stress, a concept easier to appreciate than to define. The term was probably borrowed from the language of the engineer. Selye, the chief proponent of the term in medicine, employs it to describe the effects of external influences upon the human mind and body. The lawyer seeking damages for his client on the basis of mental and emotional disturbances (mental "pain and suffering") finds proof difficult. Until the sciences supply an accurate measure of mental and emotional disturbances due to stress, the legal …

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Whiplash Injuries Of The Neck, Kenneth H. Abbott Jan 1957

Whiplash Injuries Of The Neck, Kenneth H. Abbott

Cleveland State Law Review

The nomenclature, mechanics, pathology and symptomatology of the minor injuries to the neck incurred in the socalled whiplash injury are reviewed. The common mechanism of this injury is shown to be hyperextension with recoil into hyperflexion, causing a sprain, of the soft tissues of the neck. In the more seriously injured, there may occur tearing and even avulsion of capsular and ligamentous structures of the neck. With injury to nerves and blood vessels, associated head and lower back injuries may also occur. Less commonly bony fractures of the neck vertebrae may be found. Attention is given to the delayed symptoms …

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Hospitalization Of The Voluntary Mental Patient, Hugh A. Ross Jan 1955

Hospitalization Of The Voluntary Mental Patient, Hugh A. Ross

Michigan Law Review

In 1949, the last year for which accurate statistics are available, 390,567 persons were admitted to mental hospitals in the United States. Total annual cost of mental illness, including loss of earnings, has been estimated to be over a billion dollars a year. Although the problems involved in admission of the mentally ill patient to a hospital are usually thought of in terms of formal involuntary commitment proceedings, there is an increasing awareness of the desirability of provision for voluntary procedures which would encourage prompt and effective medical care. Voluntary admission is not a form of commitment, although it may …

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Evidence - Statutory Rape - Right Of Accused To Compulsory Blood Test Of Prosecutrix And Child, Edward Pastucha S.Ed. Dec 1954

Evidence - Statutory Rape - Right Of Accused To Compulsory Blood Test Of Prosecutrix And Child, Edward Pastucha S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was convicted of statutory rape on the strength of complaining witness' uncorroborated testimony. Testimony of the prosecutrix was to the effect that she had had sexual relations with defendant only once, that she had become pregnant and had given birth to a child prior to the trial, and that she had had sexual relations with no other men. Defendant moved for an order requiring that blood tests be taken of the child and the mother. The motion was denied. On appeal, held, affirmed. Assuming power, absent statute, to compel the taking of blood-grouping tests, the trial court did …

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Torts-Liability Of Charitable Hospital For Injuries To Patient Caused By Negligence Of Nurse And Intern. [New York] Mar 1947

Torts-Liability Of Charitable Hospital For Injuries To Patient Caused By Negligence Of Nurse And Intern. [New York]

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Medical And Social Factors In Crime, A. Warren Stearns Apr 1943

Medical And Social Factors In Crime, A. Warren Stearns

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Surgeon's Liability For Operation Without The Patient's Consent Mar 1928

Surgeon's Liability For Operation Without The Patient's Consent

Michigan Law Review

Under the maxim volenti non fit injuria, a surgeon may inflict upon the body of his patient what otherwise would amount to a technical battery. The consent of the patient justifies the application of force to his person. Zoterell v. Repp, 187 Mich. 319, 153 N.W. 692; Robinson v. Crotwell, 175 Ala. 194, 57 So. 23; King v. Carney, 85 Okla. 62, 204 Pac. 270; POLLOCK, TORTS, 159; BURDICK, LAW OF TORTS, 110; TORTS, RESTATEMENT No. 1, Sec. 66. A generally accepted limitation to this doctrine is that consent to the commission of an unlawful act …

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Christian Science And Religious Liberty, Edward W. Dickey Feb 1906

Christian Science And Religious Liberty, Edward W. Dickey

Michigan Law Review

Prominent among the expressions of religious thought in this country in recent years is that of Christian Science. Its teaching in regard to the healing of disease without any material agencies has called forth many comments on the question of religious liberty. As it has attracted to it a large and ever increasing number of intelligent and law-abiding citizens, all over the country, and as there have been several efforts to partially or totally restrict its practice as a means of healing, by proscriptive legislation, we deem it proper to set forth, in a general way, some of the questions, …

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Feb 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Fayerweather Will Case; Conveyance of Land Includes Building material Fitted For Use Thereon; The Waiver of Fatal Defects in an Indictment; Consolidation of Railroads and Condemnation of Shares of Dissenting Stockholders; Compulsory Vaccination; Confidential Communications Between Physician and Patient; The Law on the Panama Canal Zone;

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Dec 1904

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Law School; The New Schools of Healing; When the Exercise of Judicial Discretion is not Due Process of Law; Mandamus to Compel the Installation of a Telephone in a Bawdy House Denied; The Division in the Republican Party in Wisconsin; A Novel Extension of Federal Jurisdiction; The Session Laws of Porto Rico

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Dec 1903

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Law School; the Mostly Edicuation Commission; Penal Statute--"medical Attendance"--Devine Healing--Constitutional Law; Validity of a Note Given to an Unlicensed Practitioner of Medicine for Medical Services When the Note has Passed Before it is Due to a Bona Fide Purchaser for Value and Without Notice; Parties--Joining Representative of Deceased Joint Obligor--Survivors; Code Pleading--Amendment--Forms of Action; Conflict of Laws--Public Policy--Agreement ot Stifle Prosecution;

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Confinement Of The Insane, Thomas M. Cooley Dec 1879

Confinement Of The Insane, Thomas M. Cooley

Articles

The time is almost within the memory of living persons when it was deemed not only lawful but proper to confine persons afflicted with mental disease in dungeons and with chains, and to subject them to beating, at the discretion of their keepers, in order to subdue their senseless fury and drive away their delusions.1 The notions of an ignorant and barbarous age justified such treatment, but the common law on the subject has been so much modified in the greater intelligence of the present century that opinions as to how much of the old rules remain must be expressed …

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