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Res ipsa loquitur in medical malpractice law
1Department of Private Law, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Medicine and Law
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
The South African courts have successfully avoided the proliferation of medical malpractice suits that is the America experience by implementing various mechanisms that are clearly protective of the medical practitioner whilst increasing the burden on the patient-plaintiff. Whilst the motive is laudable this has often led to tragic results and bizarre precedent.