WRITTEN BY LISA PEPER
ILLUSTRATION BY DAVE CUTLER |
THE CONCEPT OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE and a doctor's legal duty to perform up to a professional standard is hardly a recent phenomenon. Even in ancient Rome doctors were held responsible for negligent treatment. Vanderbilt, and eventually to his current role as director of the Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy.
"There is a considerable body of Roman case law on the wrongful infliction of harm," said Thomas A. J. McGinn, Ph.D., associate professor of Classics at Vanderbilt and an expert in Roman law. continued.. |
