Book Review: Medical Negligence Case Law

Medical negligence in orthopaedic surgery: a review of 130 consecutive medical negligence reports.

Payments by the NHS Litigation Authority continue to rise each year, and reflect an increase in successful claims for negligence against NHS Trusts. Information about the reasons for which Trusts are sued in the field of trauma and orthopaedic surgery is scarce. We analysed 130 consecutive cases of alleged clinical negligence in which the senior author had been requested to act as an expert wit...

BOOK REVIEW The Foundations of Physical Law

Many physicists enter the profession because, often as children, they felt a burning curiosity about the world. They wanted to know why material objects behave as they do, what they are made of, and where everything came from. So they were drawn inexorably towards physics, the most basic science, as the the best place to seek answers. They will have found, however, that the answers only go just...

Book Review: Money in the Law

Book Review: Law in the Making

Minimizing medical negligence.

The ophthalmologists together with all other health care providers are today under greater scrutiny than before as the public we serve is more literate, more educated and has easy access to infinite online information. In other words, the public is more aware of possible medical negligence. The days are gone when the doctor was considered next to the Supreme Being. In spite of super specializat...