"WITH NO EVIL INTENT": THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION OF PHYSICIANS FOR MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE

Author: Filkins J. A.

Source: Journal of Legal Medicine, Volume 22, Number 4, 1 October 2001 , pp. 467-499(33)

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Abstract:

If a person publicly practising as a physician, on being called upon to attend a sick woman, prescribes, with foolhardy presumption or gross recklessness, a course of treatment which causes her death, he may be found guilty of manslaughter, although he acted with her consent, and with no evil intent.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: * Assistant Corporation Counsel, City of Chicago.

Publication date: 2001-10-01