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The American College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) was founded in 1990. It is the
organization of health care and legal professionals whose diverse education,
training, and experience enable the College to promote interdisciplinary cooperation
and understanding of issues where law and medicine converge. The College's web
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Through
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- Educates and assists health care and legal professionals.
- Advances the administration of justice.
- Influences health policy and improves healthcare.
- Promotes research and scholarship.
- Facilitates peer group interaction.
The ACLM is a professional community of physicians,
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Recent
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Friday - January 26, 2007 - NEW YORK - On Friday, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer unveiled his health care
reform
plan
that is expected to save taxpayers "billions of dollars," while increasing
medical coverage for New York state residents. Spitzer's goal is to cut New York's
uninsured population in half over the next four years. The governor also
promised
to
develop a plan for affordable, universal health insurance for all New Yorkers. Earlier
this month, Pennsylvania joined California, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont
to became the fifth U.S. state to seek universal health coverage for
its residents. In
order to expand coverage in New York, the governor said the state needs to
reform the way it delivers medical care, to shift from what he called an institution-centered
to a patient-centered approach to medical care. 
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Health Law: Health Law covers a wide range of
legal concerns, from healthcare law, bioethics, elder law and
long-term care, food, drugs, and medical devices, mental health,
public health, technology and medical care, wellness,
fitness and nutrition, alternative care, to medicine,
and the entire healthcare field, including specific laws governing
the health industry: physicians, chiropractors, nurses, hospitals
and health systems, health maintenance organizations, health insurers,
managed care companies, nursing facilities, long term care facilities,
home health agencies, home care providers, and consumers. |
Mental
Health Law: Mental
health law is that area of law that deals with mental conditions,
including the treatment of mental illness and provides rules
and
procedures to be followed and penalties for breaches. Under common
law, which is based on case law rather than statutes, mental
health
law issues include such concepts as mens rea, insanity defences,
sane and insane automatism amongst others. Statute law
usually takes the form of a mental health act or equivalent. Mental
health acts are largely used in the management of psychosis where
a person has lost the ability to test reality. They may also be
used for other conditions including personality disorders. The
laws generally allow for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric
hospital or in the community. |
Public
Health Law: Public
health law focuses on legal issues in public health practice
and on the public health effects of legal practice. Public health
law typically has three major areas of practice: police power,
disease and injury prevention, and the law of populations. |
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