The Relations of the Radiologist and the Law

Abstract

THE relations and responsibilities of a radiologist to the law are as a general subject and in a general way, not much more nor less than those of any other medical specialist. A medical specialist is legally defined as a physician who applies himself to the study and practice of some particular branch of medicine. Being employed by patients or those representing them, because of his peculiar or particular skill and knowledge in that branch of medicine, it naturally follows that his duty to his patients is not measured by the ordinary or average skill and knowledge of physicians; because if he possesses no greater degree of skill or amount of knowledge in his specialty that does the average physician there would be no reason or motive for his employment, and possessing such additional and greater degree of skill and amount of knowledge it naturally becomes his duty to apply it. Briefly and succinctly, the standard of skill and knowledge required by the law of a physician who holds himself out as a special...