Ethics in medicine: The right to our day in court?

Out in the real world, where sometimes things do go wrong, is it ethical for practitioners to require patients to waive their legal rights, when nearly all practitioners in the area do so?

Randy Cohen, in The Ethicist, says “It is not.” A related issue is, what criteria can doctors use to choose their patients? He sums up by writing, “The right to our day in court should be among the inviolable.” The article is good food for thought:

New York Times Magazine / The Ethicist: Doctor, Bully