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Doctors and the Law by Hon. Hiller B. Zobel and Stephen N. Rous, MD

This book is a thinly-veiled attempt to defend the status quo of litigation-on-demand — “better the devil you know than the one you don’t.” Essentially, it advises physicians to accept the system and conform to the rigors of legal imposition when caught in the net of a medical lawsuit. It defends contingency fees, the system

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Public Policy by Lawsuit — No One Is Safe

In a 1993 two-part article at a height of the liability crisis, particularly with medical “malpractice” lawsuits,(1) I wrote that rampant litigation had become a malevolent trend threatening to unravel the fabric of society and individuals. The trend has recently cranked up to high gear as attorney-litigators have found yet new venues for enacting disruptive

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Gun Control in Australia — Chaos Down Under

Last August, the rugged Aussie survivalist, whose real life exploits inspired the “Crocodile Dundee” movies, died in what then appeared to be a mysterious shootout with Australian police. A police sergeant was also killed in the incident. It was reported that Rodney William Ansell, the 44-year-old, blond haired Aussie, uncannily resembled actor Paul Hogan, who

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