Current Medical Literature

1901 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)  
among other diseases, the disease of dyspepsia. Then, there was this question and answer : "When and by what physician were you last attended, and for what complaint 1 A. Had no medical attendance." But the jury found that he had been attended by a certain physician for temporary indigestion, not material to the risk, while the evidence disclosed the fact that the physician was an intimate friend, with whom the insured was in the habit of having daily intercourse; that he kept a horse at the
more » ... sician's stable; that they rode and talked together daily. The court holds that, as the physician never attended him at his house, his consultations, such as they were, as testified to by the physician himself, might well have been considered by the insured as informal and casual, and not within the category of medical attendance, as inquired about in the application. Current Medical Literature. Titles marked with an asterisk (*) are noted below.
doi:10.1001/jama.1901.02470440055021 fatcat:tbxwkpurp5ghleiopj5wolqk5u