Tag: malpractice

When X-rays were first announced to the world in late 1895, they seemed almost miraculous. For the first time, doctors and experimenters could look beneath…

In 1920, a Chicago courtroom heard a medical malpractice case that would sound painfully familiar even today.  Mrs. Hulda Anderson, the wife of a letter…

In 1910, a Los Angeles man brought forward the kind of medical malpractice claim that still makes patients uneasy more than a century later: he…