Churchill's Medicolegal Pocketbook

Machin - Churchill's Medicolegal Pocketbook
£24.99
£24.99
Authors/editors: V Machin
ISBN: 978-0-443-07133-1
Page count: 252
Publisher: Churchill
Publication year: 2003

This book provides an easily accessible and practical guide to a subject of increasing importance. As well as providing the legal background, it gives step-by-step guidance through a wide spectrum of medicolegal dilemmas.

Table of contents:
  1. British legal systems
  2. Legal procedure and appearing in court
  3. Preparing a police statement
  4. Forensic samples
  5. Consent
  6. Confidentiality and disclosure
  7. Clinical governance and risk management
  8. Handling complaints
  9. Clinical negligence
  10. Disciplinary bodies and procedures
  11. Death and the healthcare professional
  12. Brain stem death and organ donation
  13. Euthanasia, withdrawal of treatment and Advance Directives
  14. Child abuse and the Children Acts
  15. The Mental Health Acts
  16. The law relating to alcohol and driving
  17. The law relating to drugs

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