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4548 results in Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics & past titles

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  • Medical Skepticism of Legal Ethics

  • Richard L. Kirby
  • Journal:
    Law, Medicine and Health Care / Volume 13 / Issue 5 / October 1985
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    28 April 2021, p. 245
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    October 1985
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  • Arrivals and Departures

  • Barry R. Furrow
  • Journal:
    Law, Medicine and Health Care / Volume 13 / Issue 5 / October 1985
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    28 April 2021, p. 204
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    October 1985
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  • Erratum

  • Journal:
    Law, Medicine and Health Care / Volume 13 / Issue 5 / October 1985
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    28 April 2021, p. 202
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    October 1985
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  • Jumping from the Frye Plan into the State Farm Fire: An Analysis of Spinal Thermography as Scientific Test Evidence

  • Walter J. Finnegan, Dennis F. Koson
  • Journal:
    Law, Medicine and Health Care / Volume 13 / Issue 5 / October 1985
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    28 April 2021, pp. 205-212
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    October 1985

  • “Pictures of Pain Pay Off,” proclaimed the title of a recent article in the legal literature. The thermographic picture, or thermogram, is raising the stakes in plaintiff back cases and gaining national attention in both the medical and legal communities. Doctors see it as a diagnostic tool; lawyers, as an objective means of documenting injuries.

    Yet the diagnostic and demonstrative potentials of this modality are also arousing considerable controversy—of the kind that has attended the use in court of blood tests to determine paternity, intoxication tests, polygraphs tests, hypnosis, spectrographs, and neutron activation analysis. This article will examine the use and value of thermographic pictures as evidence of spinal conditions and nerve root compression.

  • The Lawyer's Perspective on the Use of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

  • Albert L. Bundy, A. Everette James, Jr.
  • Journal:
    Law, Medicine and Health Care / Volume 13 / Issue 5 / October 1985
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    28 April 2021, pp. 219-224
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    October 1985

  • Diagnostic sonography, also known as ultrasound, has become an invaluable aid in the practice of obstetrics and gynecology. Rapid improvements in instrumentation have caused the sonologist and sonography to assume a primary role in the care of these patients. Patient and physician expectations have increased with the technological advances. This paper will outline the advances and capabilities of diagnostic sonography in obstetrics and gynecology, while reflecting upon the foreseeable legal implications.

    The physics of ultrasound is rather complex. Briefly, ultrasound utilizes high-frequency, non-ionizing, mechanical waves, 2.25 to 10 megahertz, that require a molecular medium for propagation. The reflected energy is processed to produce an image. Because it employs non-ionizing waves, ultrasound is considered safe by most authorities when used at the intensities currently employed for diagnosis. No clinically significant adverse effects have been reported in humans to date.

  • Caselaw on Fetal Monitoring

  • Angela R. Holder, Sarah D. Cohn
  • Journal:
    Law, Medicine and Health Care / Volume 13 / Issue 5 / October 1985
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    28 April 2021, p. 244
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    October 1985
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  • Medical Uncertainty, Diagnostic Testing, and Legal Liability

  • Eric E. Fortess, Marshall B. Kapp
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    Law, Medicine and Health Care / Volume 13 / Issue 5 / October 1985
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    28 April 2021, pp. 213-218
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    October 1985

  • Health care cost considerations exert increasing influence today over clinical decision-making. One way to help contain costs while maintaining the quality of health care may be to increase among both physicians and patients an acknowledgment of, and tolerance for, a reasonahle degree of medical uncertainty. By medical uncertainty we mean here those clinical situations in which, based on available data, absolute scientific proof regarding some aspect of a patient's heallh status cannot be obtained.

    To the extent that acceptance of medical uncertainty and a corresponding restraint among physicians can he encouraged without exposing the physicians to an undue risk of legal liability, all participants in the health care system would benefit from this tolerance. To help provide this encouragement. we will explore the legal implications of medical uncertainty, focusing on diagnostic testing, and argue that our legal system does now and will continue to recognize, tolerate, and perhaps even promote some medical uncertainty in the diagnostic realm.

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