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9780198749851

A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198749851

  • ISBN10:

    0198749856

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2019-01-15
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography


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 Sachdeva
2. Consent to treatment, Sarah Elliston
3. Confidentiality and information disclosure, Rebekah Ley and Natalie Hayes
4. Medical negligence and complaints, Nigel Ley and Jane Sturgess
5. The Coroner, David Morris, Belinda Cheney, and Martin Goddard
6. End of life, Zoe Fritz
7. Organ donation and transplantation, Keith Rigg
8. Elderly care law, Richard Biram
9. Child health law, Roddy O'Donnell
10. Mental health law, Anthony Holland, Elizabeth Fistein, and Cathy Walsh
11. Medical regulation, Anne Curley
12. Healthcare management, William Roche
13. Legal basis for prescribing, David de Monteverde-Robb
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