ISSN: 1755-5191

Imaging in Medicine

Medical Malpractice-Scholarly Peer-review Journal

The concept that each one that enters into a profession undertakes to bring back the exercise of an inexpensive degree of care and skill dates back to the laws of ancient Rome and England. Writings on medical responsibility are often traced back to 2030 BC when the Code of Hammurabi as long as “If the doctor has treated a gentlemen with a lancet of bronze and has caused the gentleman to die, or has opened an abscess of the attention for a gentleman with a bronze lancet, and has caused the loss of the gentleman’s eye, one shall stop his hands” Under Roman law, medical malpractice was a recognized wrong. Around 1200 AD, Roman law was expanded and introduced to continental Europe. After the Norman Conquest of 1066, English common law was developed, and through the reign of Richard Coeur de Lion at the close of the 12th century, records were kept within the Court of Common Law and therefore the Plea Rolls. These records provide an unbroken line of medical malpractice decisions, all the thanks to times. One early medical malpractice case from England, for instance , held that both a servant and his master could sue for damages against a doctor who had treated the servant and made him more ill by employing “unwholesome medicine .In 1532, during the reign of Charles V, a law was passed that required the opinion of medical men to be taken formally in every case of violent death; this was the precursor to requiring expert testimony from a member of the profession in medical negligence claims, to determine the quality of care.    

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