Van Dokkum N
Department of Private Law, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Med Law. 1996;15(2):227-31.
The South African courts have successfully avoided the proliferation of medical malpractice suits that is the America experience by implementing various mechanisms that are clearly protective of the medical practitioner whilst increasing the burden on the patient-plaintiff. Whilst the motive is laudable this has often led to tragic results and bizarre precedent.
南非法院通过实施各种机制成功避免了医疗事故诉讼的激增，而在美国，医疗事故诉讼呈泛滥之势。这些机制明显是保护医生的，却增加了患者原告的负担。虽然其动机值得称赞，但这常常导致悲剧性的结果和怪异的先例。
