physician and patient

physician and patient
The relation whereunder a physician administers professionally to another, essentially consensual. 41 Am J1st Phys & S § 71. The relation between a surgeon performing an autopsy and the body of the dead person is not the relation of physician and patient. Carmody v Capital Traction Co. 43 App DC 245. But the relation may exist between a hospital patient and an intern who is a graduate of a medical school, with a doctor's degree, though, it may be, not licensed to practice his profession in the ordinary way by so holding himself out to the public. Eureka-Maryland Assur. Co. v Gray, 74 App DC 191, 121 F2d 104.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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