RT Journal
A1 WRIGHT GW
T1 DIsability evaluation in industrial pulmonary disease
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD December 24
VO 141
IS 17
SP 1218
OP 1222
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02910170020005
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02910170020005
AB Of the numerous problems associated with the administration of workmen's compensation, two that are especially vexing are the responsibility of the members of the medical profession. Donlon1 has recently described these contentious factors as being the evaluation of the degree of disability and the establishment of a causal relationship between the disability and whatever trauma may have arisen out of and in the course of employment.DEFINITION OF DISABILITY 
    To bring these two problems into focus it is obligatory that the expert witness have a clear understanding of the term disability as it is used in compensation acts. The term disability implies a lack of competency in respect to a designated ability. Hence a precise definition of the particular ability for which the allegedly disabled person has become incompetent is essential. In the compensation acts of most states, the term disability is defined as being meant to imply that