Unspeakably cruel-torture, medical ethics, and the law

Article Abstract:

The U.S. laws and the U.S. Supreme Court have made decisions relevant to torture during wartime. The controversy over physician's roles in the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo bay is discussed by arguing that physicians have a special responsibility to prevent and report to torture.

United States, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Prisoners of war, Medical ethics, Prisoner abuse

---

Overbilling vs. down coding - The battle between physicians and insurers

Article Abstract:

Federal appeals court as of September 2004 has upheld a class-action lawsuit filed by the insurance companies on behalf of the physicians. The physicians are accused of driving up costs and exploiting the insurance companies by over charging their service.

United Kingdom, Medical Service and Health Insurance, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Class actions (Civil procedure), Company legal issue, Cases, Class action lawsuits, Physicians, Health insurance industry

---

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: When law and ethics collide - Why physicians participate in executions. Without conscience
• Abstracts: The truth about gaining age. The science of exercise
• Abstracts: Jeremy Berg, PhD: Heading up a 'catch-all' research institute. part 2 Uwe Reinhardt
• Abstracts: The man who stole my life. In sickness, in health, in love. One woman's war on sexual slavery
• Abstracts: Nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for systemic lupus erythematosus. part 2 Autologous nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.