The structure and functioning of the United States healthcare system is perceived by many as being analogous to an inscrutable labyrinth. Moreover, the medicolegal terrain in which physicians practice in the United States is extraordinarily litigious. Liang's remarkably well researched, and excellently written, bookHealth law and policy provides healthcare practitioners with a lucid, detailed road map to avert legal catastrophes in the mine ridden, United States medicolegal landscape.

Although Liang's book is a superb compendium specifically of United States medicolegal issues and principles, it is noteworthy that the legal systems of the United States and United Kingdom are rooted, similarly, in the soil of judge …