For some time now staple fare for the medical/health care law student or academic has been either the weighty Medical Law Text with Materials by Professors Kennedy and Grubb or the distinctive contributions of Professors Mason and McCall Smith with Medical Law and Ethics, and Professor Brazier with Medicine, Patients and the Law. Now however, a credible alternative exists. Health Care Law by Jo...

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n engl j med 359;4 www.nejm.org july 24, 2008 431 Pavlin JD, Souter KJ, Hong JY, Freund PR, Bowdle TA, Bower 1. JO. Effects of bispectral index monitoring on recovery from surgical anesthesia in 1,580 inpatients from an academic medical center. Anesthesiology 2005;102:566-73. Lindholm ML, Brudin L, Sandin RH. Bispectral index moni2. toring: appreciated but does not affect drug dosing and hypnot...

Medical councils increasingly require graduates to understand law and to practise medicine mindful of the legal rules. In the UK a revised curriculum for medical law and ethics has been published. However, coverage of law in medical education remains variable and doubts exist about how far students acquire legal knowledge and skills in its implementation. This survey of students in two UK medic...

Heterogeneity exists across Europe in the definition of the profession of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine and also in academic background of specialists in this discipline. This article provides an overview of the standards of education and training of laboratory professionals and quality regulations in Croatia. Clinical chemistry in Croatia is almost exclusively practiced by medical...

Automated formalization of legal text is a timeand effort-consuming task, but human-based validation consumes even more of both. The exchange of healthcare data in compliance with the medical privacy law requires experts with deep familiarity of its intricate provisions for verification. The article presents a medical relational model (MRM) for the extraction of logical rules from medical law, ...

Judicial decisions (Fatawa) of some of the most learned juridical authorities in the Imamate (Shiite) community (maraja' al-taqlid) of present time on medical issues are examined in this paper. They will provide the reader with the responses of the Islamic jurisprudence to the most involved medical dilemmas. The paper mainly focuses on the rational viewpoints of the Islamic law on permissio...

core dental journals according to production and citation rates dr. sdj. ghazi mirsaeid * *assistant professor of medical library and information sciences dept., faculty of allied medical sciences and dental research center, tehran university / medical sciences. abstract background and aim: given the rapid expansion of dental journals in one hand, and limitation of resources on the other, it ma...