ABSTRACT
My approach to the issue of therapeutic responsibility is that of a practising solicitor whose main experience in the past twenty years has been in handling the defence of several thousand professional malpractice claims against conventional medical, dental and midwifery practitioners in the courts and also in representing them in their defence against allegations of professional misconduct by their registering bodies. Not surprisingly, there is highly specific developed statutory machinery regulating the conduct of the conventional disciplines, and a substantial level of professional involvement both in the preparation and presentation of the defence of misconduct and related areas. I argue that this machinery can and should be used as a model in complementary medicine.
