Constitutionality of Exemption Laws on Guarantee of Purity for Blood Transfusions and Tissue and Organ Transplants
- 1 March 1973
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 288 (9) , 457-459
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197303012880907
Abstract
THERE has been much controversy and concern among hospitals, physicians (especially transplant surgeons and blood banks about decisions of certain state supreme courts imposing "strict liability without fault," or requiring a guarantee of purity in the furnishing of blood products to hospital patients. The most famous recent decision of this type was passed down in 1970 by the Illinois Court in Cunningham vs. MacNeal Memorial Hospital.1 The other two leading cases in this period were decided in Pennsylvania2 and New Jersey.3 The reaction of hospital associations, insurance carriers, blood banks and medical societies to these decisions has been to seek . . .Keywords
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