An edition of Legal Medicine (Legal Medicine (American College of Legal Medicine))
(2007)
Legal medicine
7th ed.
by ACLM
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Explores and illustrates the legal implications of medical practice and the special legal issues arising from managed care. Edited by the American College of Legal Medicine Textbook Committee, it features comprehensive discussions on a myriad of legal issues that health care professionals face every day. Substantially revised and expanded and written in a plain manner, this New Edition includes 20 brand-new chapters that address the hottest topics in the field today. Will also serve as the syllabus for the Board Review Course of the American Board of Legal Medicine (ABLM).
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Legal Medicine (Legal Medicine (American College of Legal Medicine))
April 19, 2007, Mosby, Mosby/Elsevier
Hardcover
in English
- 7 edition
0323037534 9780323037532
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Table of Contents
Introduction: legal medicine
Medical practice: education and licensure
Medical staff peer review in the credentialing and privileging and impairment of physicians
Physician profile databases
Health care professional impairment
Health care provider contracts
Agency
Antitrust
Complementary and alternative medicine
Practice organizations and joint ventures
Coproviders and institutional practice
Physician as an employer
Health professionals and the regulated industry: the laws and regulations enforced by the U.S. food drug and administration
Health insurance and professional liability insurance
Patents, intellectual property, and licenses
Federal health information privacy requirements
Ethics and bioethics
Research and experimentation
The human genome project
Legal interests of the fetal patient
Organ donation and transplantation
Life care planning: ethical and legal issues
The process of dying
^Physician-assisted suicide and palliative sedation
Medical malpractice overview
Patient safety and health care quality
Medication errors
Disclosure of adverse outcome and apologizing to the injured patient
Risk management
Alternative dispute resolution
Physician-patient relationship
Competency and capacity: a primer
Informed consent to medical and surgical treatment
Medical records: paper and electronic
Medical testimony and the expert witness
Liability of health care for entities negligent care
Liability of managed care organizations
Pharmacist malpractice and liability
Medical product liability
Telemedicine and electronic mail communication with patients
Professional liability in emergency medicine
Legal issues in newborn intensvie care
Liability in obstetrics and gynecology
Liability of ophthalmologists
Liability of otolaryngologists
Liability of radiologists
Liability of neurologists
^Liability of plastic surgeons
Nursing and the law
Dental litigation: triad of concerns
Criminalization of medical negligence
Crimes by health care providers
Countersuits by health care providers
No-fault medical malpractice system in New Zealand
Children as patients
Child abuse
Domestic violence patients
Geriatric patients
Oncology patients
Brain-injured patients
Patients with HIV infection and AIDS
The law and the relief of pain: pain management
Sports medicine
Forensic pathology
Forensic engineering
Forensic toxicology
Psychiatric patients and forensic psychiatry
Criminalistics
Forensic entomology
Forensic odontology
Utilization of forensic science in the civil and criminal justice systems: forensic use of medical information
Occupational health law
Public health law
Legal aspects of bioterrorism
Physician licensing and disciplining in England and Europe
Privacy
Drivers and the law.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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