Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, June 21, 2005
...ship (Perspective, p. 974). A commentator reviews judicial rulings, outlines four potential duties the IME physician may owe to the patient, and discusses actions that IME physicians can take to limit liability. 2. "Provider Power" is a Key Factor in U.S. Rising Health Care Costs In the third of a four-ar...Roy Meadow should not be found guilty of serious professional misconduct
...propriate way forward is to find ways to improve a judicial system where facts are gathered and presented, opinions are sought and tested, and judgments are arrived at. That process might best be achieved by the kind of rigorous investigation offered through the work of a Royal Commission. Irrespective of the...The GMC'S judgement against Roy Meadow could put children at greater risk of abuse
...s decision removes any incentive for the reform of judicial procedures that fail to deal properly with expert evidence. He states that trainee paediatricians are now less likely to seek a career in child protection, while those in the field may weaken their conclusions about alleged child abuse in court to av...Who's the liar? Brain MRI stands up to polygraph test
... of crime investigation and prevention, and in the judicial determination of the guilt or innocence of accused individuals. Since the polygraph has not been embraced as a fully credible means of lie detection, the authors hope to provide a more accurate means of determining whether or not someone is telling t...'Ticking time bomb': Prisons unprepared for flu pandemic, says new SLU research
...fellow researchers developed a plan to educate the judicial and prison systems on ways to prevent the spread of disease, from meticulous hand-washing to appropriate use of quarantine and isolation in prison and jail settings. The pandemic plans are designed to provide useful information for many kinds of c...Government fails sleepy Judge Dodd
...n. The Woolcock Institute examined 15 cases of judicial sleepiness including Judge Dodd who retired in 200...tem that enabled rapid assessment and treatment of judicial sleepiness it would prevent situations where multiple defendants seek compensation or continued medi...New study in Sleep finds a high level of negativity towards judicial sleepiness
...s viewed unfavorably by the media, society and the judicial system as a whole, according to a study published ...ualitative review of media and Internet reports on judicial sleepiness. One of the more well-known cases that Grunstein pointed out is a story that was first ...