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Are health care practitioners legally liable for all unsatisfactory medical outcome?
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While practicing within the context of an implied contract between patient and physician, the physician is not bound to restore the patient to his or her original state of health. The fact that a patient grows progressively worse while under a physician's care and shows no improvement when care is withdrawn does not necessarily constitute liability. The only exception is negligence. An implied contract is a contract whereby the conduct of involved persons, rather than expressed or written words, creates the contract)
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