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Full-Text Articles in Medical Jurisprudence
Religious Freedom And Compulsory Blood Transfusion For Adult Jehovah's Witness, Anon
Religious Freedom And Compulsory Blood Transfusion For Adult Jehovah's Witness, Anon
Washington Law Review
In two separate instances adult Jehovah's Witnesses were admitted to hospitals with severe internal bleeding. Doctors in each instance determined that blood transfusions were required to save the patient's life. Each patient refused to consent to transfusions because of his religious beliefs. In one case the patient, who had no minor children, was pronounced incompetent, a conservator to consent to transfusion was appointed by the court, and the transfusion was administered. On appeal, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed. Held: An adult who has no minor children cannot be compelled to take lifesaving blood transfusions against his religious objection. In re …
Survey Of Medical Professional Liability In Washington, John Richard Steincipher
Survey Of Medical Professional Liability In Washington, John Richard Steincipher
Washington Law Review
Today, the number of these claims nears 9,000 a year at a cost of over 45 million dollars, such that one out of every seven physicians in the United States has been sued for professional negligence., This alarming increase in claims, the majority of which are deemed by many to be "without merit," represents one of the most interesting and paradoxical legal developments in recent years, since attorneys specializing in these matters estimate that they reject 80 per cent of the claims brought to them, and even with this, the defending physicians are victorious in 70 per cent of the …
Artificial Insemination: Its Place In Washington Law, David Wayne Gittinger
Artificial Insemination: Its Place In Washington Law, David Wayne Gittinger
Washington Law Review
Artificial insemination has found its place, or at least its beginning, in American society. It has not yet found its niche in American law. This comment is an attempt to indicate and speculate just what that niche would be under the present cases, statutes, and policies of the Washington court and legislature.
The Standard Of Care Of The Drugless Healer, John F. Hansler
The Standard Of Care Of The Drugless Healer, John F. Hansler
Washington Law Review
The practitioner of the healing arts who ministers to the sick and afflicted without the use of drugs and surgery has long posed a difficult regulatory problem to legislatures and to the courts. Though battered by the invective of regular medica practitioners, drugless healers continue to thrive in one form or another in most of the United States. The most common classes of these healers are the osteopaths, the chiropractors, the naturopaths, and the Christian Science practitioners. Osteopathy is licensed by statute in all of the states; it is the branch of drugless healing most like general medicine and surgery …
Physicians' And Hospitals' Liens On Tort Claims For Services Rendered Injurred Party, Anon
Physicians' And Hospitals' Liens On Tort Claims For Services Rendered Injurred Party, Anon
Washington Law Review
The 1937 session of the Washington Legislature added the medical and allied services to the selective groups whose compensation is protected in part by statutory liens. Chapter 69 of the laws of that session awards a lien to operators of hospitals, licensed nurses, practitioners, physicians and surgeons rendering service "for any person who has received a traumatic injury." The lien is upon "any claim, right of action and/or money to which such person is entitled against any tort feasor and/or insurer of such tort feasor". The amount of the lien is the "value" of the services, plus costs and such …
Waiver Of Patient's Privileges, De Wolfe Emory
Waiver Of Patient's Privileges, De Wolfe Emory
Washington Law Review
It is the purpose here to discuss the circumstances under which a patient is deemed to have waived the privilege veiling commumcations made to his physician, paying more particular attention to the law on that subject as it now exists in this state, in an attempt to arrive at the every-day and practical effect of the claim of privilege upon the ascertainment of truth in the court room.