Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics
Publication Date
Spring 2006
ISSN
1535-3532
Page Number
465
Keywords
physician-patient relationship, choice of therapy, risk of recurrence
Disciplines
Health Law and Policy | Law
Abstract
Like the other contributors to this symposium, I owe a profound debt to Jay Katz for his intellectual rigor, his gentle but firm Socratic pedagogy, and his unparalleled generosity of time and friendship. I first met Jay during my last year of law school when, at the urging of friends, I enrolled in his seminar on informed consent. By that time, he had collected most of the materials on which he based his important book. Not surprisingly, a single semester could not contain all of that material, so many of us continued on into the second semester. During that time I learned a number of things, but largely in the abstract mode that often characterizes the law school classroom. Fortunately, I had the opportunity after my first year in medical school to work on Jay's book, The Silent World of Doctor and Patient.' I am not sure that I contributed much. I have always viewed that summer as Jay's effort to create a tutorial designed to make sure I "got it." Even so, it required actually taking care of patients for the last twenty years to bring some of his lessons home.
Recommended Citation
Ellen Wright Clayton,
The Web of Relations: Thinking About Physicians and Patients, 6 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics. 465
(2006)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/1612
