Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to medical jurisprudence, or to law as affected by medical facts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information)
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Examples
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This is even the case in Australia (my home) where we have lower medico-legal litigation than the US.
Why is Health Care Inefficient?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He retired early but still does a lot of medico-legal work.
Theodore Dalrymple – Second Opinion « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The would-be reformers could have built on this record with important changes like breaking down anticompetitive barriers, reducing administrative waste, eliminating mandate-created distortions of the health insurance market, and reasonable reforms to a medico-legal liability system run amok.
No More Entitlements 2010
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The would-be reformers could have built on this record with important changes like breaking down anticompetitive barriers, reducing administrative waste, eliminating mandate-created distortions of the health insurance market, and reasonable reforms to a medico-legal liability system run amok.
No More Entitlements Scott W. Atlas 2010
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The would-be reformers could have built on this record with important changes like breaking down anticompetitive barriers, reducing administrative waste, eliminating mandate-created distortions of the health insurance market, and reasonable reforms to a medico-legal liability system run amok.
No More Entitlements 2010
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Don't give medico-legal advice over the phone, I guess.
"OK. I didn't hear the age. I don't want to know the age. It could be reported as rape. And that's child abuse." Ann Althouse 2009
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Without treating a given individual as a patient, medico-legal restrictions prevent me from answering these kinds of questions.
Odds and ends May 21, 2009 | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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This is not intended to be a medico-legal discussion.
Oil and Water (Sometimes): Guidelines and Real Life 1 Dinosaur 2009
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If for a medico-legal purpose, the patient is forced by their employer to see an abusive hired gun, that the traumatic damage to the patient can be severe.
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Exceptional forensic/medico-legal investigative skills?
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