Originally published in the Jewish Law Annual 10 (1992), pp. 291-2. Betsel ha-Hokhmah, by B. Stern, 6 Parts in Three Vols., new ed. (Jerusalem, 1990). — Most of these Responsa deal with questions to which modern life gives rise. I, 3: compensation to the victim of an assault who brought further disability on himself through disobeying the doctor’s…