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How To Handle An Anesthesia Injury Case, Albert Averbach
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, …
Court Dictation Of Choice Of Anesthesia, Carl E. Wasmuth
Court Dictation Of Choice Of Anesthesia, Carl E. Wasmuth
Cleveland State Law Review
The Supreme Court of California has extended the interpretation of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur in malpractice cases so that the physician must now be nearly a guarantor of results. And a review of a few recent, specific cases involving anesthesia makes it increasingly evident that they may have far-reaching influence on the practice of anesthesiology.