Negligence, medical

Contractors responsibilities. Obligations, for example, to treat patients according to accepted ethical standards and to accept the consequences of medical negligence. 

S. Irwin, C. Fazan, and R. Allfrey. 1995. Medical Negligence Litigation A Practitioner s Guide. London Legal Action Group. 

The statement claimed that the Vicryl suture had not broken at the knots, and the knots had not slipped. But the failed suture had been discarded after the operation, making investigation of the evidence impossible, a not uncommon problem in medical negligence cases. 

Several modes of waste management are available. The simplest is to dilute and disperse. This practice is adequate for the release of small amounts of radioactive material to the atmosphere or to a large body of water. Noble gases and slightly contaminated water from reactor operation are eligible for such treatment. A second technique is to hold the material for decay. This is appHcable to radionucHdes of short half-life such as the medical isotope technetium-9 9m = 6 h), the concentration of which becomes negligible in a week s holding period. The third and most common approach to waste... 

Medical Uses. A significant usage of chelation is in the reduction of metal ion concentrations to such a level that the properties may be considered to be negligible, as in the treatment of lead poisoning. However, the nuclear properties of metals may retain then full effect under these conditions, eg, in nuclear magnetic resonance or radiation imaging and in localizing radioactivity. 

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