Doctors and lawyers are different

Doctors, lawyers, and patients: three's a crowd.

What Are Lawyers For?

What are lawyers for? What social purposes do lawyers serve? What functions underwrite the special obligations and entitlements that accompany the lawyer’s professional role? I shall try, over the course of the next hour or so, to sketch an answer to these questions, at least with respect to lawyers who function as litigators, in adjudication. The answer will surprise many. Lawyers, I shall arg...

Doctors, Lawyers and Advance Care Planning: Time for Innovation to Work Together to Meet Client Needs

Health organizations in canada have invested considerable resources in strategies to improve knowledge and uptake of advance care planning (acp). Yet barriers persist and many canadians do not engage in the full range of acp behaviours, including writing an advance directive and appointing a legally authorized decision-maker. not engaging effectively in acp disadvantages patients, their loved o...

Should cancer patients be informed about their diagnosis and prognosis? Future doctors and lawyers differ.

OBJECTIVES To compare attitudes of medical and law students toward informing a cancer patient about diagnosis and prognosis and to examine whether differences are related to different convictions about benefit or harm of information. SETTING AND DESIGN Anonymous questionnaires were distributed to convenience samples of students at the University of Geneva containing four vignettes describing ...

Doctors and lawyers collaborating to HeLP children--outcomes from a successful partnership between professions.

BACKGROUND Clear associations exist between socioeconomic risks and health, and these risks are often amenable to legal interventions. METHODS This is a case study of an implementation of a medical-legal partnership (MLP) in three pediatric primary care centers that serve a predominantly high-risk population. Referral circumstances and outcomes over the first three years are described. RESU...