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The Medical Malpractice Myth
By Tom Baker. 214 pp. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. $22.50. ISBN 0-226-03648-0.

How to Become a Dangerous Expert Witness: Advanced Techniques and Strategies
By Steven Babitsky and James J. Mangraviti, Jr. 433 pp. Falmouth, Mass., SEAK, 2005. $99.95. ISBN 1-892904-27-6.

The little good I have done is that which cost me the greatest trouble and has encountered the most numerous obstacles.

— William Hunter (1718–1783)

At first glance, The Medical Malpractice Myth will invoke either relief or fury, depending on the reader's belief or prior distressing experience with the subject. The toxic cauldron of actionable causes — a delay or failure in the diagnosis of a disease and its subsequent treatment, a mishap in surgery or anesthesia, the misuse of a medical device or a prescription drug, failure to obtain informed consent, liability for an athlete's . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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