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Evidence--Medical Treatises To Be Admitted As Direct Evidence In Wisconsin--Lewandowski V. Preferred Risk Mutual Ins. Co., Michigan Law Review Nov 1967

Evidence--Medical Treatises To Be Admitted As Direct Evidence In Wisconsin--Lewandowski V. Preferred Risk Mutual Ins. Co., Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Defendant's attorney in a personal injury action sought on cross-examination to impeach plaintiff's physician regarding his determination of the degree of plaintiff's disability by referring to the medical standards set forth in the American Medical Association's Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment--The Extremities and Back. Pointing to the physician's testimony that he had not relied on the Guide in making his evaluation, the trial court sustained plaintiff's objection that such cross-examination was not permissible. On appeal, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that the trial court was correct in sustaining the objection in accordance with the established rule that it …


Waiver Of The Physician-Patient Privilege Mar 1967

Waiver Of The Physician-Patient Privilege

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Evidence--Medical Malpractice--Expert Testimony Of Defendant Physician When Called As Adverse Witness, K. Paul Davis Feb 1967

Evidence--Medical Malpractice--Expert Testimony Of Defendant Physician When Called As Adverse Witness, K. Paul Davis

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Physician As A Witness, Robert I. Zashin Jan 1967

The Physician As A Witness, Robert I. Zashin

Cleveland State Law Review

As a public servant the physician, being licensed to practice medicine, has certain obligations both to the state and to his profession. His primary obligation is to give aid to his patients and offer himself as a person capable of diagnosis and treatment of human ills. It is conceded by most observers that few professions require more careful preparation than that of medicine. However, a doctor's skill is not always to be found in his office. He is now often called upon to "battle" in the courts as an expert witness. In the growing interrelationship between law and medicine, the …