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31 J. Legal Med. [i] (2010)

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THE JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE


Volume 31 Number 1


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January-March 2010


CONTENTS

Symposium  Articles
Emerging Issues in Health Care Regulation: Michele Mekel              1
Protecting Patients or Punishing Providers?
A Symposium Introduction and Overview

Patients as Regulators?                 Kristin Madison             9
Patients' Evolving Influence Over Health
Care Delivery

The Quagmire of Hospital Governance       John D. Blum               35
Finding Mission in a Revised Licensure
Model

Evolution of the Health Care Quality Journey  John A. Anderson       59
From Cost Reduction to Facilitating Patient
Safety

Illinois Legal Developments Affecting     Robert John Kane           73
Physicians and Hospitals

Independent Article
Winning Social Security Disability Cases  S. Sandy Sanbar            91

Commentaries
Fat Taxes                                 Robert Creighton          123
The Newest Manifestation of the Age-Old
Excise Tax

Equity for All?                           Richard A. Garcia         137
Potential Impact of the Mental Health Parity
and Addiction Act of 2008

Book Review Essays
Against Bioethics                         Chad Flanders             157

Mental Illness, Medicine and Law          David Eckstein Goldman    163