Research Catalog

Title

Law and risk management in dental practice / Burton R. Pollack.

Author

Pollack, Burton R., 1923-2014

Publication

Chicago : Quintessence Pub. Co., c2002.

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Description

xii, 284 p. : ill; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Risk Management
• Legislation, Dental
• Jurisprudence
• Dentistry
• General Practice, Dental
• Risk Management > United States
• Legislation, Dental > United States
• Jurisprudence > United States
• Dentistry > United States
• Risk management
• Dentists > Malpractice
• Dentistry > Practice
• United States

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to the judicial system of the United States -- The regulation of dental practice -- The dentist-patient relationship: contract law -- Is it negligence, malpractice, or breach of contract? -- Statute of limitations and statute of repose: how long the patient has to sue -- Experts and the standards of care -- Vicarious liability and respondeat superior -- Does the dentist have to treat? -- Consent, informed consent, and informed refusal -- Abandonment and dismissing a patient -- Taking the medical-dental history -- Patient records -- Trial of a suit in malpractice: res ipsa loquitur, hearsay evidence, and contributory negligence -- What to do and what not to do if you are sued -- Dentist as witness -- Reports on jury trials and disciplinary proceedings -- Risk management in dental practice -- Office audit risk assessment for the general dentist -- Insuring a dental practice.

ISBN

0867154160 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002002549

OCLC

• 49057635
• SCSB-14235079

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library