Medical Malpractice on Trial

by Paul C. Weiler

Book Overview

Medical malpractice has been at the center of recurring tort crises for the last quarter-century. In 1960, expenditures on medical liability insurance in the United States amounted to about $60 million. In 1988, the figure topped $7 billion. Physicians have responded not simply with expensive methods of "defensive medicine" but also with successful pressure upon state legislatures to cut back on the tort rights of seriously injured patients. Various...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674561201
• ISBN13: 9780674561205
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"