A Further Solution to the Malpractice Problem: Corporate Liability and Risk Management in Hospitals
- 15 March 1984
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 310 (11) , 704-705
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198403153101107
Abstract
I have reached the conclusion that the hospital is liable with great reluctance because I am sure that the Sisters of Mercy have done everything within their power to run a proper institution. But they, like every other governing board, are corporately responsible for the conduct of their medical staff.—Moore vs. Carson-Tahoe HospitalTHERE has developed in the United States a quiet revolution in malpractice liability, little noticed in the medical literature. It is the movement to assign responsibility for all types of professional malpractice, including acts of independently practicing physicians, to the hospital corporation itself.The establishment of . . .Keywords
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