title: [Liability in veterinary medicine].
abstract: In order to promote the optimum exercise of the profession, the occupational group developed disciplinary standards of its own. To protect itself from socially improper procedures, from default and from its consequences, society developed standards of civil law. When a veterinarian is insufficiently equipped for adequate treatment of a patient, this patient will be referred to a veterinary surgeon who has acquired the necessary accomplishments in the section concerned; high standards of attainment will be imposed on this veterinarian. The fact that the referring veterinarian and the one to whom the patient was referred each retain their own responsibilities, is illustrated in examples. All this may result in a further improvement in quality of veterinary health care in the Netherlands.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D004285:Dogs; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000628:therapy / Q000662:veterinary; D007603:Jurisprudence; D009426:Netherlands; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000592:standards*
vernacular_title: Aansprakelijkheid in de diergeneeskunde.