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Anæsthetic Responsibility

Anæsthetic Responsibility Sectional of of Vol. XLII Proceedinas the Royal Society Medicine 31 , th 697 page Section of Anaesthetics F.F.A. President-RONALD JARMAN, D.S.C., R.C.S. [April 1, 1949] AN,ESTHETIC RESPONSIBILITY Mr. W. R. H. Coroner East Heddy (His Majesty's for London): In strict law what is the duty of the anesthetist towards his patient? The answer that would be generally given, I suppose, would be that it is his duty to take care. And that answer, though it would not be complete, would not be wrong. Let us of this so far as it would be a one. see, then, first all, why answer, goes, right It would be right in the first place because in law such a in this case in duty does, fact, exist. How this exist? and why does duty There is in law to exercise care to no general obligation cast upon everyone everyone else in any and every circumstance. There is, so to speak, no universal compulsion to take care. As Lord Esher, Master of the Rolls, remarked in the case of Lelievre v. Gould: "A man may be as negligent as he pleases towards the whole world unless he owes them a duty." In http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine SAGE

Anæsthetic Responsibility

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine , Volume 42 (9): 10 – Sep 1, 1949
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Sectional of of Vol. XLII Proceedinas the Royal Society Medicine 31 , th 697 page Section of Anaesthetics F.F.A. President-RONALD JARMAN, D.S.C., R.C.S. [April 1, 1949] AN,ESTHETIC RESPONSIBILITY Mr. W. R. H. Coroner East Heddy (His Majesty's for London): In strict law what is the duty of the anesthetist towards his patient? The answer that would be generally given, I suppose, would be that it is his duty to take care. And that answer, though it would not be complete, would not be wrong. Let us of this so far as it would be a one. see, then, first all, why answer, goes, right It would be right in the first place because in law such a in this case in duty does, fact, exist. How this exist? and why does duty There is in law to exercise care to no general obligation cast upon everyone everyone else in any and every circumstance. There is, so to speak, no universal compulsion to take care. As Lord Esher, Master of the Rolls, remarked in the case of Lelievre v. Gould: "A man may be as negligent as he pleases towards the whole world unless he owes them a duty." In

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