Practice Aids for Health Lawyers: A Look at Some Recent Contributions

“Health law” has been defined as “a specialty area of law and law practice related to the medical and other health fields.” Curran W. J. , Titles in the Medicolegal Field: A Proposal for Reform, American Journal of Law & Medicine 1(1): 1, 11 (Spring 1975). See also Stromberg C. , Health Law Comes of Age: Economics and Ethics in a Changing Industry, Yale Law Journal 92(1): 203 n.1 (November 1982).

See Kinzer D. , For Health Lawyers, Things Never Looked So Good, American Journal of Law & Medicine 4(4): 403 (Winter 1979); Norris J. , Editor's Response to Kinzer, American Journal of Law & Medicine 4(4): 407 (Winter 1979).

See National Health Lawyers Association, Careers in Health Care Law (National Health Lawyers Association, Washington, D.C.) (rev. ed. 1983); Stromberg, supra note 1.

See McMahon J. , Directory of Organizations and Resource Centers of Medicolegal Interest, American Journal of Law & Medicine 3(1): 97 (Spring 1977). See also Kapp M. , Medical Books As Evidence: An Attorney's Introduction to the Literature, Florida Bar Journal 55(11): 795 (December 1981).

Pekarsky R. L. , Dental Practice for Trial Lawyers (Harrison Co., Norcross, Ga.) (1983).

See, e.g., McQuade J. S. , Analyzing Medical Records: A Method for Trial Lawyers (Harrison Co., Norcross, Ga.) (1981).

Employees' Benefits, 20 C.F.R. Part 404 (revised, April I, 1982)

See, e.g., Appelbaum P. , The Disability System in Disarray, Hospital and Community Psychiatry 34(9): 783 (September 1983).

In 1980, about three million Americans received SSDI benefits, at a total cost approaching 113 billion. Hadler N. , Medical Ramifications of the Federal Regulation of the Social Security Disability Insurance Program, Annals of Internal Medicine 96(5): 665 (May 1982). See also Office of Research, Statistics, and International Policy, Department of Health and Human Services, Characteristics of Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries (U.S. Gov't Printing Ofc., Washington, D.C.) (1983).

See Kapp M. , Promoting the Legal Rights of Older Adults: Role of the Primary Care Physician, Journal of Legal Medicine 3(3): 367, 387–97 (1982).

Keenan D. C. Ashman C. R. , Social Security Disability Claims: Practice and Procedure (Harrison Co., Norcross, Ga.) (1983).

Employees' Benefits, 20 C.F.R. Part 416 (revised, April 1, 1982).

Keenan , Ashman , supra note 11, at 63.

See, e.g., Flood of New Legislation Attempts to Modify Policy on Social Security Eligibility, Hospital and Community Psychiatry 33(11): 951 (November 1982).

Ficarra B. J. , Medicolegal Handbook: A Guide for Winning Verdicts (Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, N.Y.) (1983).

Id. at 12.

Id. at 17.

Rothblatt H. B. , Handling Health Practitioner Cases (Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co., Rochester, N.Y.) (1983).

See, e.g., Gray R. , Attorney's Text book of Medicine (Matthew Bender, Inc., New York, N.Y.) (3d ed. 1981).

See Danner D. , Expert Witness Checklists (Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co., Rochester, N.Y.) (1983).

Rothblatt , supra note 18, at 405.

For an excellent presentation of this topic, see McQuade , supra note 6.

Rothblatt , supra note 18, at 178, 213.

Id. at 350.