Field's Medico-legal guide for doctors and lawyers / by George W. Field.

  • George W. Field
Date:
1887
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Credit: Field's Medico-legal guide for doctors and lawyers / by George W. Field. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    and it appeared on the trial that the patient's estate was of the value of between seven and eight thousand dollars, and the jury rendered a verdict for only $500, on appeal, the Supreme Court of Louisiana, increased the amount to $1,000. § 117. Judgment for services a bar to action for mal- practice. On general principles, it may be observed that, if a judgment is recovered by a physician or sur- geon against his patient for services, the latter cannot, at least under the modern practice, after- wards maintain an action as^ainst the former for malpractice in performing the services, especially if the latter had knowleds^e of the alleojed mal- practice, and could have interposed it as a defense to the original suit, and have claimed therein damages for the alleged malpractice, by way of counter-claim : Blair v. Bartlett, 75 N. Y. 150. See also Actions and Defenses, 1 Field's L. B., § 9]. § 118. Statutes regulating the collection of compensation. In various states there are statutes, regulating the collection of fees of physicians and surgeons,