Physical

See Disability; Force; Labor, 1; Necessity; Presumption. PHYSICIAN.

In a statute providing for the organization of medical societies, held not limited to any school of practitioners. The law implies an undertaking that he will exercise reasonable care and skill in the treatment of a patient; not that he will effect a cure. He may testify to a statement given by his patient in relation to his condition, symptoms, and feelings, past and present — where the bodily condition of a plaintiff, alleged to have been injured, is the subject of inquiry; but the necessity does not extend to declarations by the party as to the cause of the injury when that is the principal matter of inquiry. To defend against an action for his services, on the ground of a custom among physicians not to charge each other, it must appear that that custom was so universal as to justify the conclusion that it became, by implication, a part of the contract. A physician is liable in damages for want of skill in another physician to whom he intrusts practice.

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