Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Law and the Doctor, Vol. 1: A Compilation of the Fundamental Legal Principles Governing the Relation of the Physician to His Patients and the Community at Large; The Physician's Civil Liability for Malpractice
The physician having undertaken the treatment of a patient, the law, by implication, immediately creates for him a contract, the breach of which constitutes malpractice. The nature of this contract, the acts and things which affect it, and the civil liability that grows out of its breach, will be examined in detail in the following pages.
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