Research Catalog

Title

Legal medicine / American College of Legal Medicine Textbook Committee, S. Sandy Sanbar ... [et al.].

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Mosby/Elsevier, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Sanbar, Shafeek S.
• American College of Legal Medicine.

Description

xv, 748 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

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).

Subject

• Physician-Patient Relations
• Legislation, Medical
• Jurisprudence
• Medical laws and legislation > United States
• Jurisprudence > United States
• Legislation, Medical > United States
• Physician-Patient Relations > United States
• United States

Note

• "American College of Legal Medicine."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0323037534 (hbk.)
• 9780323037532 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2006033533

OCLC

72774293

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library