Medical manslaughter: a recent history

Recent medical history--cataract surgery.

A Charge of Manslaughter against a Medical Man

Considerable interest has been excited by a charge of homicide by imprudence, preferred against Dr. J. D. M. Coghill of Colombo, in having caused the death of Mr. Stephen Rowan Aitken, by negligently and without due caution prescribing and causing to be administered certain medicines. From the evidence, it would appear that Mr. Aitken, who was thirty years of age, had been under Dr. Coghill's t...

Department of medical education; A personal history

This is a brief overview of the history of formal introduction of the art andscience of education into the sphere of medical education in Shiraz. Before this introduction medical education was, and in the majority of other institutions world-wide still is, a simple transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. The students accepted their passive role because this was how they had been taught a...

[Withholding medical care as a physical injury--manslaughter and withdrawal of treatment].

Withholding therapy may cause a charge of manslaughter and the intended withdrawal of therapy may result in proceedings because of second-degree murder, requested homicide and omission of help, respectively. According to the criminal law, negligence of the duty to help does not require a guarantor position of the physician but the intent for punishableness. Otherwise, the physician is liable fo...

Doctors charged with manslaughter in the course of medical practice, 1795-2005: a literature review.

OBJECTIVES To quantify the number of doctors charged with manslaughter in the course of legitimate medical practice and to classify cases, as mistakes, slips (or lapses), and violations, using a recognized classification of human error system. DESIGN We searched newspaper databases, Medline, Embase, and the Wellcome library catalogue to identify relevant cases from 1795 to December 2005. SE...