assessment of medical liability systems with more emphasize on ethical challenges

Medical Travel: The Ethical and Legal Challenges

Medical tourism is a term referring to the people traveling to other countries to obtain medical care. Like any other rapid growing indus­try, medical tourism has prompted ethical and legal issues. These issues are mainly pertained to malpractice and consumer protection. Beside these, risk management, foreign hospital liabilities, international ad­vocacy, facility ownership, intellectual proper...

The Transitioning Medical Professional Liability Market—Challenges in Valuing a Medical Professional Liability Company

Likely driven by continuing health reform efforts and the flight of physicians from administrative detail and operating risk, statistics indicate that the number of physicians in private practice has declined notably over the past 10 years. By the time the Affordable Care Act was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2012, at least one industry source was estimating that the number of ph...

Overcoming Ethical Challenges of Bedside Medical Education.

Introduction Bedside teaching has long been a time-honoured component of medical education, and this was emphasised by Sir William Osler, father of modern medicine who once said, “To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study without patients is not to go to sea at all.” While utilitarian arguments have been used to justify such training, deontologi...

the effect of esp materials on medical studentsreading proficiency

چکیده این تحقیق " مواد درسی " را به عنوان یکی از بحث برانگیزترین موضوعات آموزش زبان تلقی کرده و درتلاش است به سه سوال عمده پاسخ دهد: 1) آیا بکارگیری جزوات گرداوری شده توسط گروهی از مدرسین تاثیر بسزایی در میزان توانش خواندن و درک متون انگلیسی دانشجویان پزشکی دارد؟ 2) آیا استفاده از مواد درسی اصلی( بین المللی )، توانش خواندن و درک متون انگلیسی دانشجویان پزشکی را به طور چشمگیری تحت تاثیر قرار م...

Optimality of no-fault medical liability systems∗

This paper considers a model of defensive medicine where doctors are imperfect agents of insured patients. A national insurer subsidises both curative and preventive medical care consumed by risk averse patients. We show that in such an environment, the optimal liability regime is similar to the no-fault systems of Sweden and New Zealand where the doctor faces zero liability. The reason is that...

Risk-needs Assessment: Constitutional and Ethical Challenges