OBJECTIVE To examine aspects of litigation involving iatrogenic dysphonia and injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve in the adult population. STUDY DESIGN Legal database review. SETTING Medicolegal judicial system. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Jury verdicts and settlement reports listing voice impairment or recurrent laryngeal nerve dysfunction as a primary injury in adult patients were identifi...

When medical practitioners act as expert witnesses for the plaintiff in contested illness lawsuits, they can be stigmatized by their professional community. Drawing on ethnographic research surrounding the condition multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) in Australia, this article focuses on: how plaintiff experts specialize; their rationale for deviance from the professional norm; and structura...

The paper investigates the pretrial discovery process empirically. Using data from an interview survey of both attorneys in 369 federal civil cases, and by employing a simultaneous-equations tobit econometric model, I identify factors that determine the plaintiff’s and defendant’s discovery levels. The four main results show that the discovery behaviors of plaintiffs and defendants are differen...

896 Am J Health-Syst Pharm—Vol 66 May 15, 2009 Copyright © 2009, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc. All rights reserved. 1079-2082/09/0502-0896$06.00. Affirming science and peer-review publishing of scientific exploration if researchers felt constrained from publicly reporting such differences. For publishers, the decision defends the sanctity of the time-honored peer-review pr...

When representing a body of case law it is invaluable to have a means of executing the representation to check and refine the representation. This is better done using generic tools, since the focus can then be on the representation itself, rather that on the software using it. In this paper we prototype a novel representation of cases as dimensions [1], using a standard spreadsheet (Excel) whi...

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