Don Harper Mills
1927-2013 American pathologist and medical-legal scholar
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Don Harper Mills's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of California, San Francisco
- Doctorate Law University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Don Harper Mills was an American pathologist and medical-legal scholar. He was a clinical professor of pathology and psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, president of the American College of Legal Medicine from 1974 to 1976, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, of which he served as president from 1986 to 1987. He was also a practicing lawyer who served as medical director of the County of Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Program. He is known for telling the "Ronald Opus" story to members of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in 1987, when he was the Academy's president. Though Mills had invented the story, it has often been incorrectly referred to as if it were true.
Don Harper Mills's Published Works
Published Works
- Operational criteria for the determination of suicide. (1988) (200)
- Medical insurance feasibility study. A technical summary. (1978) (103)
- A critique of the use of generic screening in quality assessment. (1991) (86)
- The management of forest streams. (1980) (29)
- Whither informed consent? (1974) (17)
- The Kansas death statute: bold and innovative. (1971) (13)
- Medical malpractice risk management early warning systems. (1991) (12)
- Medical Lessons from Malpractice Cases (1963) (9)
- Clinical risk management: experiences from the United States. (1995) (9)
- Vergil's Tragic Vision: The Death of Priam (1978) (7)
- More on brain death. (1975) (6)
- Prenatal diethylstilbestrol and vaginal cancer in offspring. (1974) (4)
- The Hero and the Sea: Patterns of Chaos in Ancient Myth (2002) (3)
- Statutory brain death? (1974) (2)
- COMMENTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE AAFS ETHICS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN (1997) (2)
- PHYSICIAN RESPONSIBILITY FOR DRUG PRESCRIPTION. (1965) (2)
- Code of Ethics for the Academy. (1986) (2)
- Does Clinical Risk Management Improve the Quality of Health Care? (1995) (2)
- Medical injury information. A preparation for analysis and implementation of prevention programs. (1976) (2)
- Informed consent--the rejoinder. (1975) (1)
- Medicolegal responsibilities in physician-laboratory relations. (1965) (1)
- A cautious view of the 'Patient's Bill of Rights' (1974) (1)
- Malpractice prophylaxis: an analysis of ventilatory problems in anesthesia. (1972) (1)
- Statutory definition of death. (1972) (1)
- MALPRACTICE AND THE CLINICAL LABORATORY. (1964) (1)
- Malpractice in the '80s -- what lies ahead, what can be done. (1982) (1)
- The Medical-Legal Viewpoint (1977) (1)
- Is California's certificate of merit plan worthwhile? (1980) (0)
- Corleto in perspective. (1977) (0)
- Staff bylaws: an internal code of conduct. (1976) (0)
- Information please. (1985) (0)
- Will the hospital chart defend you? (1962) (0)
- ALLERGIC REACTIONS TO DRUGS. A SURVEY ON HOSPITAL PRACTICES OF SOLICITING MEDICAL INFORMATION FROM NEWLY ADMITTED PATIENTS. (1964) (0)
- The Heart and the Law. (1968) (0)
- Tailoring malpractice reforms. (1976) (0)
- “Medical Errors” and Other Problems in Practice Unrelated to Medical Knowledge (2004) (0)
- Editorial: Setting the record straight. (1975) (0)
- MALPRACTICE AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF DRUGS. (1965) (0)
- California's natural death act. (1977) (0)
- Medicolegal ramifications of current practices and suggested changes in certifying modes of death. (1968) (0)
- Medicolegal responsibilities in physician-laboratory relations. (1965) (0)
- Courts, Health Science and the Law (1992) (0)
- HOSPITAL STAFF PRIVILEGES. (1964) (0)
- New Approaches to the Resolution of Professional Liability Problems (1986) (0)
- A Review of Law, Medicine, and Forensic Science (1982) (0)
- About Medicolegal Exposures in Medical Practice (1965) (0)
- Editorial: The power of appellate courts. (1975) (0)
- Whither malpractice litigation? (1988) (0)
- Book Review: California Physician's Legal Handbook—1990 (1990) (0)
- Hidden legal dangers of the dental record. (1966) (0)
- Legal implications of laparoscopic complications. (1974) (0)
- Editorial: "Medicolegal rounds". (1974) (0)
- Malpractice litigation. Are solutions in sight? (1975) (0)
- A Review of Evidence, Proof & Probability (1986) (0)
- Editorial: Why do physicians usually win in court? (1975) (0)
- TRAFFIC SAFETY. CALIFORNIA LAWS AFFECTING THE PHYSICIAN AND HIS PATIENT. (1964) (0)
- Quality assurance: whose responsibility? (1976) (0)
- Intrauterine murder. (1975) (0)
- From the Standpoint of the Legal Profession (1970) (0)
- Physicians and drug brochures. (1969) (0)
- Editorials: PSRO and malpractice. (1974) (0)
- Editorial: A position on malpractice? (1976) (0)
- Abortions, sterilizations, and religion. (1974) (0)
- SOLICITING DRUG INFORMATION FROM NEWLY ADMITTED PATIENTS. (1965) (0)
- Surgical and Allied Malpractice. (1970) (0)
- A Review of Testifying in Court (1985) (0)
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