In 1900 medical malpractice was an obscure field, with few cases, small damages, and little case law. Across the century malpractice became a major component of tort litigation and created entire industries of insurance, expert witnesses, and dedicated malpractice attorneys. Concepts from the legal profession, such as "the standard of care" collided with medical practice. The introduction of new medical technologies led to dramatic breakthroughs in care but created confusion over what appropriate care entailed. New rulings on plaintiff's rights in tort law expanded a patient's ability to sue. Juries, courts, physicians, hospitals, medical societies, insurance firms, and legislators were caught in a collision of medicine, law, and technology. No single constituency presses malpractice forward, rather each constituency in turn drove the issue to a crisis in the 1970s.
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Neal C. Hogan is Executive Director, The Advisory Board Company, Washington DC. He earned his Ph.D from Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, in 1999.
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medical professional liability, malpractice problem, short splint, locality rule, society counsel, hospital liability, res ipsa loquitur, medical defense, medical malpractice law, medical malpractice litigation, alleged malpractice, legal medicine, charitable immunity, defendant physician, physician error, malpractice cases, malpractice defense, charitable hospitals, malpractice crisis, physician liability, malpractice suits, professional liability insurance, physician leaders, medical malpractice claims, legal nightmare Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Judge Kellogg, Royal Corbin, Doctor Honsinger, United States, World War, Doc Honsinger, Jumpstarting the Twentieth Century, Joseph Sadusk, New Hampshire, Hamilton's Treatise, Judge Waugh New!
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medical professional liability, malpractice problem, short splint, locality rule, society counsel, hospital liability, res ipsa loquitur, medical defense, medical malpractice law, medical malpractice litigation, alleged malpractice, legal medicine, charitable immunity, defendant physician, physician error, malpractice cases, malpractice defense, charitable hospitals, malpractice crisis, physician liability, malpractice suits, professional liability insurance, physician leaders, medical malpractice claims, legal nightmare Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Judge Kellogg, Royal Corbin, Doctor Honsinger, United States, World War, Doc Honsinger, Jumpstarting the Twentieth Century, Joseph Sadusk, New Hampshire, Hamilton's Treatise, Judge Waugh New!
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- Legal Medicine by American College of Legal Medicine Textbook Committee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in Back Matter
- Rays: A History of Radiology in the United States and Canada by S. Brecher in Back Matter
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics by Warren T. Reich in Back Matter
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery by Nancy Marie Fortunato RN BSN BA MEd RNFA CNOR CPSN in Back Matter
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