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1 Liability of Physicians for Accidents Occurring during Anesthesia 1912

handle is hein.beal/lypsatogas0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Reprinted from the New qk il 17burir., May n, A THE LIABILITY OF PHYSICIANS FOR ACCIDENTS OCCURRING DURING ANESTHESIA.* By ALMUTH C. VANDIVER, New York, Counsel to the Medical Society of the County of New York. The liability of physicians for fatality or injury resulting from the negligent administration of an- esthetics to patients is absolute. This is true whether the physician personally administers the anesthetic or whether he causes the same to be ad- ministered by a licensed assistant or by a trained nurse or by any other person. The Legislature of the State, in their careful endeavor to protect the health of the public, has provided that no person other than a licensed physician may have in his pos- session any anesthetic substance capable of produc- ing stupor or uncbonsciousness, with intent to ad- minister the same or cause the same to be adminis- tered to any person without the latter's consent, un- less by the direction of a duly licensed physician. This offense is declared to be a felony and the ptn- ishment prescribed for a violation of the section is imprisonment for not more than ten years in the State prison. The statute in full, which is subdi- vision i of Section 1752 of the Penal Law, is as follows: A person, other than a duly licensed physician or sur- geon engaged in the lawful practice of his profession, who has in his possession any narcotic or anesthetic sub- stance, compound, or preparation, capable of producing stupor or unconsciousness, with intent to administer the same or cause the same to be administered to another, without the latters consent, unless by direction of a duly *Paper read before The Bronx Medical Association, *February 20, 1912, by John G. Dyer, Asrociatk Counsei. Copy-right, 1912, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company.

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