Alan P. Montague

Legal Problems in Emergency Medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

All professionals now require a working knowledge of the law relating to their subject. This text offers practical guidance specifically for the doctor, nurse, manager or lawyer faced with legal difficulties arising out of a medical emergency. The first part of the book offers guidance, with examples, for those "on the spot" in difficult situations, whilst the second part consists of a condensed but authoritative summary of the various legal topics comprising emergency medicine law. Written in plain language, it makes several complex and difficult areas of the law accessible to the legal layman, yet it does not avoid more complicated issues and is fully referenced so that the truth of each statement can be validated.

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All professional people now require a working knowledge of the law relating to their subject; `Ignorance of the law is no excuse'. Those practising Emergency Medicine are no exception, whether casualty officers, hospital specialists, or general practitioners. This volume is for them and is in two parts. The first is guidance, through difficult situations, with practical examples, for someone put on the spot. The second is a condensed and authoritative summary of theseveral legal topics comprising Emergency Medicine Law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 235g
• ISBN-13: 9780192624963
• ISBN-10: 0192624962
• Artikelnr.: 22086328

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Practical problems
1: Avoiding trouble
2: Department discipline
3: Obtaining consent
4: Special patients with special problems
5: Officialdom
6: Local difficulties
7: Writing reports
8: Going to court
Part 2: Reference section
9: The system
10: Consent
11: Medical negligence and vicarious liability
12: Confidentiality
13: Police powers
14: Controlled drugs
15: Mental health law
Index