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Jahi McMath was a thirteen-year-old girl who was declared brain dead in California following surgery in 2013. This led to a bioethical debate engendered by her family's rejection of the medicolegal findings of death in the case, and their efforts to maintain her body using mechanical ventilation and other measures.
Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. 552 (2011), [1] is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a Vermont statute that restricted the sale, disclosure, and use of records that revealed the prescribing practices of individual doctors violated the First Amendment.
The mature minor doctrine is a rule of law found in the United States and Canada accepting that an unemancipated minor patient may possess the maturity to choose or reject a particular health care treatment, sometimes without the knowledge or agreement of parents, and should be permitted to do so. [1]
A federal judge on Thursday struck down a 2017 Indiana law that prohibited doctors from helping young pregnant patients find less stringent abortion care out of state.. Judge Sarah Barker of the ...
In parallel with the state investigation, Sidney Zion also filed a separate civil case against the doctors and the hospital. [17] The civil trial came to a close in 1995 when a Manhattan jury found that the two residents and Libby Zion's primary care doctor contributed to her death by prescribing the wrong drug, and ordered them to pay a total ...
The judge disagreed and informed the jury that the doctors could be held guilty if their prescribing practices deviated from medical norms to the extent that they were unrecognizable as medicine. The jury ultimately found that the two doctors were guilty under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). [1] Ruan and Couch appealed to the United States Court of ...
The U.S. is already facing a major shortage of between 37,800 and 124,000 doctors in the coming years, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges.
The Axon case set out a list of criteria that a doctor must meet when deciding whether to provide treatment to an under-16 child without informing their parents: they must be convinced that they can understand all aspects of the advice, that the patient's physical or mental health is likely to suffer without medical advice, that it is in the ...