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Medicolegal News, Volume 5 - Issue 4 - Fall 1977

Contents

Research Article

  • News from the Society

  • Elliot L. Sagall
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2021, pp. 2-15
  • Fall 1977

    With this issue, MEDICOLEGAL NEWS inaugurates a number of new features and a new internal appearance intended to give our readers the type of articles and information believed of interest to the many persons concerned with medicolegal problems. To improve this service, the comments and suggestions of our readership are earnestly sought. Additionally, guest editorials are invited and in this area, Leonard Berlin, M.D., a successful countersuitor and participant at the recent Controversies in Law & Medicine symposium, leads off with a response to last issue's article entitled, The Physician Countersuit: More Than Having To Say You're Sorry. Other new features include, Medicolegal Update, a regularly planned column designed to bring relevant developments in medicolegal areas to the attention of MEDICOLEGAL NEWS readers, and Hospital Forum, edited by James F. Holzer, J.D., formerly MEDICOLEGANLE WS Managing Editor. In this column, Mr. Holzer will address timely legal issues and developments affecting the hospital and its personnel.

Guest Editorial

  • Countersuing the Attorney to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits

  • Leonard Berlin
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2021, pp. 3-15
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  • Announcement

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    01 January 2021, p. 4
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Hospital Forum

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  • The Right to Refuse Treatment and Natural Death Legislation

  • Jane A. Raible
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2021, pp. 6-13

  • A great deal of discussion and debate has centered around the right of a terminally ill patient to refuse life-sustaining treatment. The statement of policy found in Idaho's recent Natural Death Act summarizes many of these issues:

    The legislature finds that adult persons have a fundamental right to control decisions relating to the rendering of their medical care, including the decisions to have life sustaining procedures withheld or withdrawn in instances of a terminal condition.

    The legislature further finds that modern medical technology has made possible the artificial prolongation of human life beyond natural limits.

    The legislature further finds that patients suffering from terminal conditions are sometimes unable to express their desire to withhold or withdraw such artificial life prolongation procedures because of the progress of the disease process which renders the patient comatose or unable to communicate with the physician.

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