Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine
To the Editor: Rarely will a lawyer spell out more honestly, at least in public, the attitude of the legal profession toward medical-malpractice suits than Grad does in his recent review of Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine, by Barry Werth (Nov. 19 issue). 1 Grad ju...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The New England journal of medicine 1999-04, Vol.340 (15), p.1214-1214 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | To the Editor:
Rarely will a lawyer spell out more honestly, at least in public, the attitude of the legal profession toward medical-malpractice suits than Grad does in his recent review of
Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine,
by Barry Werth (Nov. 19 issue).
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Grad justifies the suit described in the book as follows: “[in] our society, there are no remedies available for such cases of catastrophic birth injury other than medical-malpractice actions” and “there is no way in which the high cost of caring for an infant for years can be met without relying on . . . |
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| ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/NEJM199904153401516 |