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The “Respectable Minority” Defense and Unorthodox Medical Treatments
If you elect to use a new or experimental medical treatment—one accepted, say, by a growing minority of doctors—and something goes wrong, can you sue for malpractice? Perhaps the experimental treatment fails where a more conventional one would have succeeded. Perhaps the physician trying the experimental procedure is somewhat unfamiliar with its details and… Read More »