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Medical Jurisprudence

Cleveland State Law Review

1966

Medical malpractice

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How To Handle An Anesthesia Injury Case, Albert Averbach Jan 1966

How To Handle An Anesthesia Injury Case, Albert Averbach

Cleveland State Law Review

The criteria of competence of the trial lawyer handling a medical malpractice case is, does he have at least as much if not more knowledge of the practice and procedure involved in the case than the defendant physician. In no place is this more true than in the field of anesthesiology. This is not, of course, to suggest that the attorney can compete with the physician in practical experience. But, it is to propose that many valid anesthesia malpractice cases result in nonsuits and that plaintiff's verdicts which are overturned on appeal are almost invariably lost due to insufficient evidence, …


The Conspiracy Of Silence: Physician's View, Carl E. Wasmuth Jan 1966

The Conspiracy Of Silence: Physician's View, Carl E. Wasmuth

Cleveland State Law Review

To many a physican, law suits, courts, and occasionally law- yers themselves are anathema. Schooled in the sciences, his life is dedicated to the practice of medicine. He is a man of conviction and of purpose. He is articulate and even at times loqua- cious. These qualities would lead one to believe that the physician would be well equipped, quite willing, and capable of appearing as an expert witness in a court of law. Quite to the contrary, the physician most generally is unwilling to be a legal witness. In fact, the entire subject of law suits often is repugnant …