Malpractice: new under the sun?
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چکیده
In a quotation which opens the very first section of Kenneth Allen de Ville's magnificent work "Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America" [1], the author cites J.R. Weist's 1884 observation on the malpractice law suits of the time, that the "remedy of these evils in the profession involves many and grave problems in sociology which I cannot now stop to consider" [2]. He might well have added that the problems were not only sociological but medical, educational and legal as well, and that they were ever increasing in number and complexity; the trend, with ups and downs, was to continue for more than a century after he wrote. At the time of Weist's paper, malpractice proceedings had been a significant phenomenon in the law and medicine of the United States for rather more than forty years. Why they came so markedly to the fore in nineteenth century America is a question which, with De Ville's assistance, is well worth considering; for both their number and the extreme nature of the charges which were brought against physicians (and more particularly against surgeons) provide a wealth of illustrative material, much of which by analogy remains relevant in understanding malpractice litigation at the present day.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The International journal of risk & safety in medicine
دوره 3 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992