Malpractice Law Dissected for Quick Grasping

Grasping Weber's law

will obey Weber’s law, but that the perceived locations of its endpoints will not. The judgments underlying this inconsistency coexist in our brain without being noticed, but they are revealed when a task that mainly relies on the locations of a line’s endpoints is compared with one that mainly relies on the length of the same line [3,4]. This distinction between position and size is essential ...

Weber's law in grasping.

In their reply to our recent paper published in the Journal of Vision (Ganel, Freud, & Meiran, 2014), Heath, Jazi, and Holmes (2015) provide what seems to be a psychophysical interpretation of Weber’s law. Yet their interpretation does not refer to the stimulus and to changes in its size, the true purview of Weber’s law. Heath et al. (2015) focus on the distance between the fingers—a response m...

Overview of medical malpractice law in Canada.

Essays on Malpractice Law and Physician Behavior

This dissertation contributes to an understanding of the manner in which various dimensions of malpractice law shape physician behavior and how this behavior, in turn, impacts health outcomes. In Chapter 1, I explore the association between regional variations in physician practices and the geographical scope of the standards of care to which physicians are held in malpractice actions. To inves...

The Law of Medical Malpractice in Missouri