Legal Aspects of Coronary Disease

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Abstract
Law courts, compensation boards, and legislative bodies appear to consider chronic degenerative disease, particularly coronary artery disease, attributable to occupations and various stresses, both physical and emotional. There is no scientific justification for this point of view. This paper reviews the medical-legal trends in laws and litigation relative to coronary artery disease. It is suggested that physicians be less ready to testify to such causal relationships without adequate scientific evidence. The physician''s situation in court is becoming less authoritative because physicians have been willing to testify to traumatic causation in terms which they would not be willing to use in professional meetings of physicians.

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