Medical Staff Law and the Hospital
- 21 October 1971
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 285 (17) , 952-959
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197110212851707
Abstract
IT should come as no shocking news that the law affecting physicians and hospitals has radically changed in the last decade. The law has changed and is changing because society in general now presses for such change. The law responds to those societal pressures and attempts to meet the expressed needs of the public. That has been one of the traditional functions of the law.Many years ago Justice Holmes in his classic work, The Common Law, stated a definition of law that is appropriate to our present discussion:The life of law has not been logic: It has been . . .Keywords
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