Medical injury, patients' claims and the effects of government responses in Anglo-American legal systems

Medical injury, patients' claims and the effects of government responses in Anglo-American legal systems.

Almost no one is happy with malpractice liability, the traditional AngloeAmerican system for dealing with complaints about medical injury. To its more trenchant critics it is inefficient, ineffective, inaccurate and, what matters most, it is structurally inconsistent with the fundaments of quality improvement and future patient safety. It is, in all, something only a trial lawyer could love. 3 ...

An Anglo-American medical lexicon.

As a dual US-EU citizen who grew up in America but underwent foundation and core medical training in London, I learnt to prescribe paracetamol instead of acetaminophen and was brilliant at directing patients to the lift instead of the elevator (or, as I called it my first few weeks in the UK, the “elevator-lift”). What I was not prepared for, however, was that, on returning to the US for a clin...

A comparative study of the Iranian and American legal systems' application of the principle of justice in drug and medical equipment contracts

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Unexplored Avenues in Comparative Anglo-American Legal History

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...