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Cureus
November 2024
Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, New Delhi, IND.
Vulnerable groups, such as pregnant women and young children, can face barriers to timely and essential healthcare, primarily due to their dependence on caregivers. Medico-legal interventions are effective tools to protect high-risk populations when traditional methods fail. Based on my experience as a Medical Officer In-Charge of a Primary Health Center in rural Haryana, India, I present three case studies where legal assistance was used to ensure necessary medical care.
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December 2024
Division of Neonatology, Evanston, Hospital, Endeavor Health, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Recent litigation against the two major U.S. formula manufacturers regarding their products liability, in Gill v Abbott Laboratories and Watson v Mead Johnson, juries in two U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe laws of medical malpractice have historically differed in significant ways from general liability laws. Until the mid-twentieth century, physician liability in the United States was limited to cases in which the doctor and patient had an established professional relationship. In the 1970s, courts and legislatures began carving out exceptions when patients posed an imminent threat to identifiable third parties.
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December 2024
Saint Petersburg Institute of Postgraduate Education in Dentistry, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
This study aimed to define the criteria for legal assessment of medical care violations. Today, medical incidents, particularly medical care violations, are not systematized and have no legal definitions. This complicates their legal assessment and does not allow for the necessary effectiveness of legal regulation of relations in the healthcare sector.
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December 2024
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Zabrze, Poland.
The discontinuation of futile therapy is increasingly discussed in Polish clinical practice. Given the need to ensure patient well-being, it is essential to consider whether all clinical options resulting from medical progress should be used for every patient and on what grounds decisions to limit therapy should be based. The aim of our study was to determine the opinions of Polish medical doctors on this topic.
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