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9780521183413

Good Medical Practice: Professionalism, Ethics and Law

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521183413

  • ISBN10:

    0521183413

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-02-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Good Medical Practice: Professionalism, Ethics and Law brings together information that is central to the professional, ethical and legal requirements of being a doctor. It covers a core curriculum for medical students, doctors in training and international medical graduates preparing for the Australian Medical Council examinations. A useful guide for busy doctors, giving sound advice for issues that arise in practice, ensuring that all approaches meet professional standards. Effective and compassionate practice depends equally upon good communication skills, an empathetic attitude, truthfulness, self-reflection and an awareness of the responsibilities arising under relevant laws. Good Medical Practice encapsulates these attributes and includes practice management, inter-professional relationships, sexual misconduct, complaints processes, the Australian health care system and doctors' health within its broad and comprehensive purview. Written by specialist practitioners with vast teaching experience, this is a unique, timely and accessible text that reinforces a contemporary focus on professionalism in medical practice.

Table of Contents

Ethical principles for the medical profession
Ethical and legal responsibilities of medical students
Communication skills
Consent and informed decision making
Confidentiality, privacy and disclosure
Medical records, reports and certificates
Negligence, professional liability and adverse events
The regulation of the medical profession
Health care complaints systems
The doctor and sexual boundaries
Personal health of the doctor: illness and impairment
Maintenance of professional competence
Ethics and the allocation of health care resources
The Australian health care system
The doctor and interprofessional relationships
Entering and leaving practice and practice management
Clinical research
Prescribing and administering drugs
Diagnosing and certifying death and the role of the coroner
Births, reproductive technology, family law and child protection
Termination of pregnancy and related issues
Withholding or withdrawing treatment in the seriously or terminally ill
The law and the mentally ill
The law and courts of law in Australia
Medico-legal examinations and reports, court procedures and expert evidence
Other legislation relevant to medical practice
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