Summary
The independence and objectivity of key disciplinary and credentialing bodies from vested interested within the medical profession are also in doubt. Because of lack of public confidence in these processes, patients tend to employ malpractice litigation as an avenue for expressing grievances and sanctioning "bad apple" doctors.
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Book Review: Skegg &Amp; Paterson, Medical Law in New Zealand[Dagger]
Book Review: Skegg & Paterson, Medical Law in New Zealand[dagger]
New Zealand is renowned in the United States and around the globe for three things: its dramatic scenery, its ubiquitous sheep, and its highly progressive health care and medicolegal systems. Peter Jackson and Tourism New Zealand have acquainted Americans with the first two of these, and in their recent book, Medical Law in New Zealand, Peter Skegg and Ron Paterson provide a guide to the third.This collection of papers has a distinguished roster of editors and contributors from the leading law schools in New Zealand: the Universit...See the full content of this document
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