Doctors and the Law

Stephen N. Rous, MD Dr. Stephen N. Rous is a graduate of Amherst College and New York Medical College, and he did his training in Urology as a Resident and Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Dr. Rous is currently an Emeritus Clinical Professor of Surgery/Urology at Brown University Warren Alpert School of Medicine and, until 2016, he saw patients at its affiliated VA Hospital. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Surgery/Urology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and an Emeritus Professor and Chair of Urology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Dr. Rous is the author of several books, including co-author of the first edition of Doctors and the Law (1993). He has received many honors and awards including an Honorary Membership in the German Urological Association, and he has been honored by both the Mayo Clinic, where he trained, and by his alma mater, New York Medical College, for "outstanding contributions to urology." Currently, Dr. Rous lives in Virginia and sees patients at Langley Air Force Base Hospital. He is a Colonel, United States Army, Retired. Hon. Hiller B. Zobel (retired) After graduating from Harvard College, Hiller B. Zobel served in the United States Navy subsequently attending and graduating from Harvard Law School. He was an admiralty lawyer for eight years, specializing in personal injury defense trial. From 1967 to 1979 a professor at Boston College Law School for 12 years, and of counsel to two Boston law firms before serving as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court for 26 years. In addition to co-authoring the first edition of Doctors and the Law (1993), Judge Zobel wrote The Boston Massacre (1970, reissued in 1996). He has written numerous scholarly and popular articles on law, legal history, and the courts, subjects on which he has also lectured widely. Judge Zobel lives in Boston's North End.