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Most physicians strongly dislike medical-malpractice litigation. The idea that they or their colleagues might be sued for injuring someone because of substandard care is repugnant. The litigation process is time-consuming and, more important, emotionally trying. Perhaps some of the emotional trauma that physicians experience could be relieved if they were better informed about the nature of the legal process in malpractice litigation. Unfortunately, until now there has been no reasonable description of that process available to physicians.
Zobel and Rous's book Doctors and the Law fills this gap admirably. It provides an orientation to malpractice litigation not only for physicians
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