Legal Aspects of Medicine

1. Legal Dimensions of Cardiology, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine

   1. Assessing and Presenting the Medical Evidence in a Case of Occupational Lung Disease

      • W. K. C. Morgan, Stephen I. Richman

      Pages 130-143

   2. Impairment Evaluation for Disability Determination

      • Richard E. Kanner

      Pages 144-151

   3. The Asbestos Connection: The Differing Perspectives of Medicine and the Law

      • Albert Miller, Ronald B. Grayzel

      Pages 152-174

   4. Medical and Legal Issues in Lung Cancer

      • James R. Vevaina, Harold L. Hirsh

      Pages 175-190

   5. Brain Death and the Law

      • Faroque A. Khan, Herbert Dicker, Jeffrey D. Robertson

      Pages 191-199

   6. Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support

      • Thomas A. Raffin, Herbert Dicker, Jeffrey D. Robertson

      Pages 200-214

   7. Airway Management and Mechanical Ventilation

      • Steven A. Sahn, John E. Heffner, Richard S. Rosen

      Pages 215-221

   8. Pulmonary Artery Catheterization and Its Problems

      • Rajinder K. Chitkara, Gregory V. Serio

      Pages 222-233

   9. Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation

      • Stephan L. Kamholz, Frank J. Veith

      Pages 234-239

   10. Medicolegal Issues in Pulmonary Emboli

       • John G. Weg, Edward B. Goldman

       Pages 240-251

   11. Legal Aspects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Testing and Discrimination

       • Harold M. Ginzburg, Mark J. Rosen

       Pages 252-261

   12. Medical and Legal Aspects of Tuberculosis in Drug Addicts, Prisoners, and Patients with AIDS

       • Asim K. Dutt, William W. Stead, John J. Weigel, Donna G. Klein

       Pages 262-270

   13. Hypersensitivity Lung Disease and Challenge Testing

       • Donald P. Schlueter, George Mathai, Donna Klein

       Pages 271-280

   14. Asthma in the Emergency Room

       • M. Henry Williams Jr., Seymour Boyers

       Pages 281-290

   15. Medical and Legal Questions in Occupational Airway Disorders

       • Stuart M. Brooks, Stephen I. Richman

       Pages 291-306

   16. Legal Aspects of Respiratory Therapy

       • Denise Leto, Allen P. Wilkinson

       Pages 307-310

   17. Legal Aspects of Lasers

       • John R. Irwin

       Pages 311-324

   18. The Psychological Effects of Medical Malpractice Litigation on the Physician

       • Robert S. Kassoff

       Pages 325-330

2. Back Matter

   Pages 331-340

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The simple reason for creating this book was my impression that the law is having an increasing impact on the practice of medicine. There is hardly a physician I know who has not been deeply troubled by legal problems professionally, economically, and most important of all, psychologically. The past decade has seen medical practice premiums steadily rising. Multimillion dollar verdicts have not been unusual. Having disregarded these vital issues for many years, physicians have suddenly become very aware of litigation-related problems. Having been interested for a long time in the logic ofthe law and the romance of legal research, I thought it would be useful to create a book that would result in the blending of great minds in law and medicine. It has been my long­ standing observation and belief that the approach of professors of medicine, and that of learned members of the bar and bench, when put together, produce unique results. Putting these views together has been the real challenge in editing this book.

• Trauma
• asthma
• care
• critical care
• infection
• intensive care medicine
• mechanical ventilation
• transplantation

• Pulmonary Lab, Flushing Medical Center, USA

  James R. Vevaina

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

  James R. Vevaina

• Pulmonary division, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, New Hyde Park, USA

  James R. Vevaina

• State of New York and Consolidated Edison Corporation, USA

  James R. Vevaina

• Flushing Hospital and Medical Center, Flushing, USA

  James R. Vevaina

• Department of Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, USA

  Roger C. Bone

• Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, 2nd and 11th Judicial Districts, USA

  Edwin Kassoff

• Pace University, USA

  Edwin Kassoff

• Jamaica, USA

  Edwin Kassoff

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