THE DOCTRINE OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE SUIT WITH REFERENCE TO POLITICS, LAW AND SOCIETY: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Over the past three decades, the field of medical malpractice has become a field of increasing
interest to a wide variety of academicians including, but not limited to legal and economic
scholars. One of the key factors contributing to the surge in interest is the gradual growth in
litigations. This crisis can be traced back to the early 1960s US, where it started to gain
momentum and was already at the forefront by the dawn of the decade of 1980s. The
conjectural aspect of the crisis has paved the way for the generation of an extensive literature,
which is a result of collation of massive data from various diversified fields of study. The
medical malpractice suit theory as a doctrine owes its evolution to a set of contributions, not
only from the medical field but diverse areas of study such as law, commerce, economics,
etc.