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  2. List of medical ethics cases - Wikipedia

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    Within 48 hours of being put on Paxil Schell killed his wife, daughter, infant granddaughter, and himself. Tim Tobin, Schell's son-in-law, took legal action against SmithKline (now GlaxoSmithKline). The Tobin case was heard in Wyoming from May 21 to June 6, 2001. The jury returned a guilty verdict against SmithKline and awarded Tobin $6.4 million.

  3. Patient abuse - Wikipedia

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    Patient abuse and neglect may occur in settings such as hospitals, [4] nursing homes, [5] clinics [6] and during home-based care. [7] Health professionals who abuse patients may be deemed unfit to practice and have their medical license removed [8]: 20 as well as facing criminal charges as well as civil cases.

  4. Conscience clause in medicine in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The grocer sued but, instead of alleging violations of the broader Constitution of Washington, its attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty only filed under the Free Exercise Clause of the United States Constitution. [16] The case is known as Stormans, Inc. v. Wiesman.

  5. Medical malpractice - Wikipedia

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    In common law jurisdictions, medical malpractice liability is normally based on the tort of negligence. [3]Although the law of medical malpractice differs significantly between nations, as a broad general rule liability follows when a health care practitioner does not show a fair, reasonable and competent degree of skill when providing medical care to a patient. [3]

  6. Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court departed and overruled the earlier House of Lords case in Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital, in reconsidering the duty of care of a doctor towards a patient on medical treatment. The case changed the Bolam test to a greater test in medical negligence by introducing the general duty to attempt the ...

  7. List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Roberts Court

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    federal law does not preempt the states' prerogative to regulate the advertisement of tar and nicotine rates in cigarettes Herring v. United States: 555 U.S. 135 (2009) evidence obtained during a search the police conducted as a result of an isolated act of negligence not related to the search is not subject to the exclusionary rule: Oregon v. Ice

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  9. Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee - Wikipedia

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    Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582 is an English tort law case that lays down the typical rule for assessing the appropriate standard of reasonable care in negligence cases involving skilled professionals such as doctors. This rule is known as the Bolam test, and states that if a doctor reaches the standard of a ...