Thus, while the notion of a wrong remains important to our understanding of tort law, the alternative view invites the thought that the underlying concern of tort law is to address the costs, suffering, or more generally, the losses that victims suffer as a result.
Our reported cost estimates are therefore likely to be conservative as they do not account for those costs that are indirect (eg, costs due to absenteeism, travel costs, household production and informal healthcare costs) or intangible (eg, costs of suffering to the individual).
I have never understood why our vanity has had to be at the cost of suffering to other living things.
Governments are increasingly realising vanity shouldn't be at the cost of suffering Scientists predict that global diets will need to change dramatically within the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic food shortages.
I work with patients and their families who are confronting end-of-life decisions, and I recognize the impulse among some physicians to wage a relentless war against death, seemingly unaware of the cost in suffering to both patient and family.
In the gamble of life, protection against malaria may be preferable, even at the potential cost of suffering from sickle-cell disease.
Once bedsores develop, they represent an acute health condition that results in increased cost and suffering over months or even years.
Considering the cost and suffering to keep longer but less ideal residual limbs for the patients, the importance of achieving a satisfactory weight-bearing stump, even if a little shorter but with enough and healthy soft tissue coverage, cannot be overemphasized.
The surplus costs of IRR are considered acceptable, taking into account the high societal costs of suffering from MPS of psychogeriatric patients and the high burden of caregivers.
Good care depends on doctors practicing with ethical and clinical priorities; bad care increases costs and suffering.
