"Malpractice: The Problem in Perspective"
Journal article
By: James M. Vaccarino
Date: August 22, 1977
Source: Vaccarino, James M. "Malpractice: The Problem in Perspective." Journal of the American Medical Association 238, no. 8, August 22, 1977, 861–863.
About the Author: James M. Vaccarino received a law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1957. After working in private practice, he joined the Massachusetts General Hospital as general counsel in 1972.
Introduction
During the 1970s, malpractice arose as a medical and legal concern. Malpractice is an error in treating a patient that results either from the failure to implement the correct treatment or the initiation of an incorrect treatment. Malpractice is thus an error of commission or omission. In either case, the treatment or lack of it must harm a patient in a way correct treatment would have prevented. All these...
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