Excerpt from The Doctor in Court

The purpose of the following pages is to give a sketch of the impression of the law as it applies to physicians and surgeons. It is not a work on the correlation of law and medicine, popularly called medical jurisprudence. It is an attempt to put briefly and in high relief the general principles of law relating to the medical profession, and the reasons for those principles. The questions considered are rapidly becoming of more consequence. In the feverish and intemperate haste with which persons nowadays resort to the courts for the recovery of damages, the physician and surgeon has not escaped. A knowledge of his duties and legal obligations will help him to foresee and forestall unpleasant eventualities likely to grow out of his relations with his patient.

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