ion, the difference between the two perspectives can seem to fade into insignificance. On the one hand, fiduciary law is perfectly capable of accommodating nonmandatory obligations. Fiduciary law scholars readily acknowledge that, under certain circumstances, shareholders should be permitted to waive at least some fiduciary duties. 141 Generally, they simply want to put in place sufficient safe...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recognized the importance of housestaff in the provision of hospital care when it regulated housestaff duty hours to improve patient safety. ACGME intended to create a better balance between the management of resident fatigue and the continuity of patient care, but the shorter hours mandated by duty hour reform have created more f...

The emergence several years ago of SARS, with its high rate of infection and death among healthcare workers, resurrected a recurring ethical question: do health professionals have a duty to provide care to patients with deadly infectious diseases, even at some substantial risk to themselves and their families? The conventional answer, repeated on the heels of the SARS epidemic, is that they do....

A call by the Institute of Medicine to advance the cause of patient safety catalyzed the current focus on duty hours limits during resident education. Unrelated benefits to resident education have accrued from those efforts, but, despite rigorous study of the issue, there is little evidence of a positive impact on patient safety resulting from trainee duty hours adjustments. Moreover, the discu...

INTRODUCTION More than any other area of emergency medicine, legal issues are paramount when caring for an agitated patient. It is imperative to have a clear understanding of these issues to avoid exposure to liability. These medico-legal issues can arise at the onset, during, and at discharge of care and create several duties. At the initiation of care, the doctor has a duty to evaluate for co...

Duty of loyalty and due care the board’s members have been lately introduced to provisions Polish Commercial Companies Code. This paper aims define duty board members, as presented in doctrine, well British, Spanish, German laws. Additionally, impact new on liability shall be described.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the percentage of amputee soldiers who sustained their injury during the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and have returned to duty. In addition, the authors plan to identify the factors that influence the amputee's likelihood to return to duty. METHODS The computerized records of amputee soldiers who presented to the Physical Eva...