Wyatt v. Stickney
Country: United StatesYear: 1972
Court: Federal District Court of Alabama
Citation: 325 F.Supp. 781 (1971)
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Mental health
Human Rights: Right to health
Facts:
Tags: Access to health care, Access to treatment, Budget, Health expenditures, Health funding, Health spending, Mental disability, Mental disorder, Mental illness, Mental institution, Mental retardation, Primary care, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public hospitalsPlaintiffs, the guardians of patients confined at Bryce Hospital, Alabama (the Hospital) and certain employees of the Alabama Mental Health Board assigned to the Hospital, requested an order of reference for an authoritative determination of standards of the adequacy of the current and future mental treatment employed by the Hospital in effecting the right to …Read more
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Tunkl v. Regents of the University of California
Country: United StatesYear: 1963
Court: Supreme Court of California, In Bank
Citation: Tunkl v. Regents of the University of California 383 P.2d 441 (Cal. 1963)
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Hospitals, Medical malpractice
Human Rights: Right to health
Facts:
Tags: Access to health care, Access to treatment, Duty of care, Negligence, Public hospitals, TortHugo Tunkl filed suit to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have resulted from the negligence of two physicians at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, a non profit charitable institution. Tunkl died after suit was brought, and his wife was substituted as plaintiff. Tunkl was admitted to the UCLA Medical Center …Read more
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