Although authorized by statutes, involuntary civil commitment in this country was largely a clinical process until the 1960s. Patients were hospitalized on the statements of one or two physicians, without advice of counsel, opportunities to defend themselves in hearings, or any legal recourse save habeus corpus writs, which were seldom used and even less frequently successful. 1.2 When courts b...

Judicial Branch. We thank John Jiang for generously providing us the SAS code for computing executive incentives. We thank the Abstract We examine the influence of general counsel on firms' accounting quality and earnings management practices. We consider two views of the role of general counsel and how they relate to financial reporting. The first is the " gatekeeper " role in which the genera...

OBJECTIVES To describe the various factors that come into play when a breast-feeding mother is taking medications, including use of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, recreational drugs, galactogogues, and herbal remedies and to provide a framework used for counseling breast-feeding women. SETTING Community and hospital pharmacy and health care settings. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION ...

E xculpatory clauses extinguish or limit liability of a potentially culpable party through the use of disclaimer, assumption of risk and indemnification clauses as well as releases of liability. For decades, Florida courts have wrestled with issues relating to the enforcement of exculpatory clauses where liability arises from personal injury, real estate, construction, and commercial disputes. ...

OBJECTIVE To test whether follow-up phone calls to counsel families about pediatric emergency department (PED) use and primary care availability made after an index PED visit would modify subsequent PED use. DESIGN Longitudinal prospective randomized intervention. SETTING An urban academic children's hospital. PATIENTS A total of 4246 individuals aged 0 to 21 years from each of 4 particip...

OBJECTIVE To provide primary care physicians with evidence-based information and advice on the management of at-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder (AUD). SOURCES OF INFORMATION We conducted a nonsystematic literature review using search terms that included primary care; screening, interventions, management, and treatment; and at-risk drinking, alcohol use disorders, alcohol dependence, an...