supreme court decision

As we have discussed in previous posts (here and here), prior to a US Supreme Court decision in 1975, physicians (and other professionals) were left free to set up and enforce their own codes of ethics.

Until about 1980, the US American Medical Association (AMA) stated,

BOSTON -- The landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns "has launched the country on a risky epidemiologic experiment," according to the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine.