Add to ORKGIn this Article a clear-cut dichotomy is maintained between the liability of the phyisician or surgeon for breach of express contract, on the one hand, and malpractice, on the other hand. It is recognized that some persons use malpractice in a generic sense to connote any action against a physician or surgeon regardless of its nature or form. With them one cannot quarrel for theirs is simply a choice of terminology, de gustibus non disputandum, and is not based on any particular view of the substantive law underlying the claim. However, the better and almost universal usage is to restrict malpractice solely to cases involving negligent or unskillful conduct on the part of the physician and surgeon, and it is so used here
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Why should a treating physician be held liable for any lack of treatment on the part of the hospital...
Although health plans once existed mainly to ensure that patients could pay for care, in recent year...
Law implies from the employment of a doctor contract that the doctor will diagnose and treat his pat...
In this Article, Professor Silver examines the origins of present-day malpractice law. He begins by ...
Medical malpractice denotes the basis for a civil action brought by a patient against a physician f...
A phase of the field of civil law which seldom comes within the experience of the average practition...
In the past decade, the bar, and especially the trial bar, has become keenly aware of the problems r...
Medical malpractice is usually considered in terms of negligent conduct by the physician in the cour...
Three categories of cases have been noted out of the mass of factually individualistic ones concerni...
This article examines the various ways in which the courts have been fashioning rules of liability f...
Beginning with an investigation into the problematic nature of medical liability, the Article overvi...
Part 2 of the article can be found through this link: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/1...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has held that a trial judge may not direct a jury verdict on the i...
An attorney is not an insurer of the result of a case in which he is employed, without a special con...
Modern law often rests on the assumption that a uniform cost-benefit formula is the proper way to de...
Why should a treating physician be held liable for any lack of treatment on the part of the hospital...
Although health plans once existed mainly to ensure that patients could pay for care, in recent year...