Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1 — John Shaqi
Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August)
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Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1
Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August)
Medical jurisprudence; Poisons; Toxicology
_Conditions of Contract Between Physician and Patient Further
Considered._—It has been observed that the contract between the
physician and patient may be conditional or unconditional. By this it
is meant that limitations upon the reciprocal obligations between them
may be imposed, or extensions of such obligations made, by special
agreement. The physician may contract to cure, and may make the cure
a condition precedent to receiving any reward for his services or
medicaments, and a breach of such a contract will be enforced by
the courts as a bar to an action for services rendered or medicines
furnished. The patient may agree to come to the physician’s home or to
a hospital or other place agreed upon between them, for the purpose of
being treated, or of being operated upon by a surgeon, and a failure
to perform such an agreement on the part of the patient absolves the
medical man from carrying out his agreement to treat the patient.
In the case already suggested of a request by the medical man for
information as to the patient’s past history, or that of the patient’s
family, or the circumstances concerning the injury or symptoms of
the disease, if the patient should give false information, or should
wilfully neglect to give true information, the physician would have a
right, upon giving reasonable and due notice, and opportunity to employ
some one else, as already intimated, to decline to proceed further with
his care of the case, and might sue and recover pay for the services
rendered.
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