THE CLERICAL AND MEDICAL LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE AGAIN.

Fees for Medical Reports for Life Assurance

To the Editor op the "Indian Medical Gazette." Dear Sir,? I send for perusal, .and publication, if you think fit, a copy of some correspondence which has taken place between the Manager of the Oriental Life Assurance Company of Bombay and myself, regarding the amount of the fee paid by that company for a medical report on an applicant for assurance. You will notice that the Manager considers th...

Celibacy and Clerical Culture

• . . f o r the manner of thy begetting is so foule that the name, nay the lightest thought of it, d~leth the purest minde, so that our B. Sauiour refused none of our miseries, but on@ that," and the matter so horrid, so foule, that all other dung is pleasant and gratefull in respect of it; nay we dare not in discourse glue it a name, for our owne shame & others of fence. . . I cannot imagine a...

Syphilis and Life Assurance

The medical malpractice insurance crisis, again.

The real crisis presented by the breakdown of our medical malpractice litigation and insurance system is that the wrong people are getting most of the money. Often, the people who sue have substantial injuries but dubious liability claims, while many people with legitimate claims can't even assert them. As a result, many doctors are angry and resentful toward patients who bring frivolous claims...

High Assurance Life and Death

Today’s airspace environment is congested and complex. The enroute environment is a tangled web of victor airways and jet routes connecting the multitude of radio navigation aids sprinkled all over the world and especially the US. The terminal area environments are highly congested with air traffic and requires precise aircraft control by pilots and ground controllers. This situation is even mo...