Legal ramifications of cancelling vascular surgical cases

The legal ramifications of best practices in health care.

Medical-legal ramifications of an autoerotic asphyxial death.

Attorneys, insurers, and psychiatrists frequently find themselves metaphorical bed partners. This co-tenancy can be convivial, even occasionally fruitful. Such an instance involves a case in which a man who in the process of attempting to obtain sexual gratification asphyxiated to death. A double indemnity death benefits policy was in force. The insurer refused to pay, contending that the decea...

Failed sterilisation: evidence-based review and medico-legal ramifications.

Sterilisation is one of the most common procedures in the world. Around 50,000 female sterilisations are performed every year in the UK, although there is a suggestion of a worldwide downward trend in sterilisation procedures. Surgical techniques used in female sterilisation are designed to prevent pregnancy by occluding tubal patency through mechanical device application, electrocautery or by ...

Vascular calcification: mechanisms and clinical ramifications.

Vascular calcification, long thought to result from passive degeneration, involves a complex, regulated process of biomineralization resembling osteogenesis. Evidence indicates that proteins controlling bone mineralization are also involved in the regulation of vascular calcification. Artery wall cells grown in culture are induced to become osteogenic by inflammatory and atherogenic stimuli. Fu...

Modelling Legal Cases

Motives play an important role at every stage of a criminal investigation. They can be used to search for an explanation of the crime (why was this person killed?), to identify a suspect (who would have killed this person for this reason), and to persuade a jury of a suspect’s guilt (this motive explains why this person committed this crime). We have previously developed an account of motivatio...