Doctors and the Law: Defendants and Expert Witnesses
Cyril H. Wecht
Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America, by James C. Mohr, 319 pp, $30, ISBN 0-19-505384-2, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1993. The physician who is a defendant medical malpractice action an obviously involuntary position, while doctor agrees to serve as consultant potential expert witness for attorney does so on purely voluntary basis. Nevertheless, there are numerous similarities between two visa-vis lawyers, courts, legal process, both roles fraught with much danger if unprepared, legally inexperienced, naive. What should do when confronted possibility of being sued alleged professional negligence? How you react then later, threat lawsuit becomes painful reality? If your patient sues third party personal injuries (eg, automobile accident, product liability, job-related injury), what rights responsibilities
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