MEDICAL FEES IN CORONERS' COURTS.

Medical examiners, coroners, and bioterrorism.

To the Editor: Federal, state, and local agencies are developing plans to detect and respond to bioterrorism. Medical examiners and coroners should be included in these plans. A multifaceted response team for bioterrorist events includes health-care providers and law enforcement, public health, and public safety officials. Since medical examiners and coroners generally work independently from o...

Screening for Patent Quality: Examination, Fees and the Courts

To study how governments can improve the quality of patent screening, we develop an integrative framework incorporating four main policy instruments: patent office examination, preand post-grant fees, and challenges in the courts. We show that examination and pregrant fees are complementary, and that pre-grant fees screen more effectively than post-grant fees. Simulations of the model, calibrat...

Medical Examiners and Coroners ’ Offices , 2004

About 2,000 medical examiners and coroners' (ME/C) offices provided death investigation services across the United States in 2004. These offices were responsible for the medicolegal investigation of death. They may conduct death scene investigations, perform autopsies, and determine the cause and manner of death when a person has died as a result of violence, under suspicious circumstances, wit...

Demands of Medical Fees from Medical Men

Medical Fees in the Colonial Period *

A comparison of physicians' fees in the Colonial period with those of today should reveal much of interest and value. Numerous daybooks are available establishing the sums paid to the physician in the currency of the time, but obviously direct comparisons cannot be made because of the change in the purchasing value of the units. Consultation with historians, sociologists, and economists has ind...