A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters

by Jane Sturgess, Derek Duane, Rebekah Ley

Overview

A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters offers practitioners highly practical advice on the legal principles which they need to apply to everyday clinical practice.

Thirteen chapters cover key areas of medical law from the structure of the legal system, confidentiality, mental health capacity, through to current legal practices. Each chapter is written in an easy-to-digest format with helpful summary boxes covering key legal terms, laws, and statutes, and 'key point' boxes highlighting important take-home facts. An alphabetical glossary of legal terms at the end of the book offers a rapid reference that supports every chapter.

A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters has been carefully crafted to be concise yet informative and practical, covering the key aspects of this daunting subject. Written by a team of doctors and legal practitioners in the field of medical law, this resource offers you the expertise and experience needed to get to grips with medical law.

A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters includes access to online-only content, consisting of 65 multiple choice questions and answers that can be used to reinforce understanding, along with further reading sources to supplement and explore topics of interest. You can access and use this online material by activating your unique access code.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198749851
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/15/2019
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jane Sturgess, Consultant Anaesthetist and Associate Lecturer, West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, UK,Derek Duane, Consultant Neuroanaesthetist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK,Rebekah Ley, Assistant Director, Medico-Legal Department, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Table of Contents

1. The English legal system, Vikram Sachdeva2. Consent to treatment, Sarah Elliston3. Confidentiality and information disclosure, Rebekah Ley and Natalie Hayes4. Medical negligence and complaints, Nigel Ley and Jane Sturgess5. The Coroner, David Morris, Belinda Cheney, and Martin Goddard6. End of life, Zoe Fritz7. Organ donation and transplantation, Keith Rigg8. Elderly care law, Richard Biram9. Child health law, Roddy O'Donnell10. Mental health law, Anthony Holland, Elizabeth Fistein, and Cathy Walsh11. Medical regulation, Anna Curley12. Healthcare management, William Roche13. Legal basis for prescribing, David de Monteverde-RobbGlossary

Editorial Reviews

"This is a superb book whose title accurately describes what lies between the covers, an essential guide on legal issues of interest to doctors and associated healthcare professionals." — Dr Harry Brown, GP: MBChB, Glycosmedia

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