By: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC [2]
Dr Wilson’s recent editorial (BCMJ 2005;47[1]:4) [9] covered extensively the relationship between doctors, patients, and lawyers, and the legal ramifications.
A single doctor in a small town survives admirably. However, each town requires at least two lawyers for them to survive financially. What happens if the husband and wife lawyers represent their clients on opposite sides? Is there a conflict of interest? I suppose we physicians need not worry about it unless we are the clients in this scenario.
—H.C. George Wong, MD
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