Hired Guns and Malpractice Cases

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (6) ◽  
pp. 958-958
Author(s):  
Arlan L. Rosenbloom
Keyword(s):  
Medical Expertise ◽  
February Issue

I have just read Gloria Schrager's letter in the February issue on medical expertise and John Kattwinkel's reply. My own experience as an expert for both plaintiffs and defendants is littered with examples of "hired guns" testimony by our colleagues. Those of us who have been appalled by this behavior and would be willing to sign contributions about offensive experiences might be able to make a difference. Certainly the lawyers' services will find these articles and would be able to eventually discover who the author was talking about.

January/February Issue

CFA Magazine ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-74 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
February Issue

scholarly journals Telemedical consultation for remote islands

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Lukas Dölger ◽  
Robert Wendlandt ◽  
Jan-Thorsten Gräsner ◽  
Niels Renzing
Keyword(s):  
Conventional Approach ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Medical Support ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Medical Expertise ◽  
Term Evaluation ◽  
Remote Islands ◽  
Innovative Concept

AbstractThe following work gives an overview of telemedical consultation in emergencies based on a research project. A telemedical centre located at a university hospital offers medical expertise for rural islands independent from place, time and urgency. Medical employees on the islands were relieved in matters of responsibilities and received medical support whenever it is necessary. Results from the projects mid-term evaluation compare the innovative concept with the conventional approach.

Revisiting E = mc2 and the February issue

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 259-259
Author(s):  
Edw. S. Ginsberg
Keyword(s):  
February Issue

scholarly journals Diocesan Licensing and Medical Practitioners in South-West England, 1660–1780

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Mortimer
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Medical Expertise ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Decentralized Trade ◽  
South West ◽  
The Many ◽  
South West England

The licensing of provincial surgeons and physicians in the post-Restoration period has proved an awkward subject for medical historians. It has divided writers between those who regard the possession of a local licence as a mark of professionalism or proficiency, those who see the existence of diocesan licences as a mark of an essentially unregulated and decentralized trade, and those who discount the distinction of licensing in assessing medical expertise availability in a given region. Such a diversity of interpretations has meant that the very descriptors by which practitioners were known to their contemporaries (and are referred to by historians) have become fragmented and difficult to use without a specific context. As David Harley has pointed out in his study of licensed physicians in the north-west of England, “historians often define eighteenth-century physicians as men with medical degrees, thus ignoring … the many licensed physicians throughout the country”. One could similarly draw attention to the inadequacy of the word “surgeon” to cover licensed and unlicensed practitioners, barber-surgeons, Company members in towns, self-taught practitioners using surgical manuals, and procedural specialists whose work came under the umbrella of surgery, such as bonesetters, midwives and phlebotomists. Although such fragmentation of meaning reflects a diversity of practices carried on under the same occupational descriptors in early modern England, the result is an imprecise historical literature in which the importance of licensing, and especially local licensing, is either ignored as a delimiter or viewed as an inaccurate gauge of medical proficiency.

Comments on the dilemma in the February issue: ‘Violent vet’

In Practice ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-143
Author(s):  
Shawn Kozlov
Keyword(s):  
February Issue

Medical expertise: begin with the end in mind

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurpreet Dhaliwal
Keyword(s):  
Medical Expertise

Insomnia, Medicalization, and Expert Knowledge

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenton Kroker
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Sleep Medicine ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Medical Expertise ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Public Health Authorities

Historians have clearly articulated the ways in which sleeplessness has long been part of the human condition. As an object of medical expertise and public health intervention, however, insomnia is a much more recent invention, having gained its status as a pathology during the 1870s. But while insomnia has attracted considerable and concerted attention from public health authorities allied with sleep medicine specialists, this phenomenon is not well explained by classical medicalization theory, in part because it is the sleepless sufferers, not the medical experts, who typically have the authority to diagnose insomnia. The dynamics of insomnia’s history are better described as those of a boundary object, around which concepts and practices of biomedicine and psychology coalesce to frame contemporary notions of self-medicalization and self-experiment.

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