Law for Doctors - Principles and Practicalities (3rd edition)

Garside - Law for Doctors
£15.99
£15.99
Authors/editors: John Paul Garside
ISBN: 978-1-85315-681-6
Page count: 94
Publisher: RSM Press
Publication year: 2006

Law for Doctors focuses on aspects of English law that are relevant to medical practice such as civil claims, legal procedure, funding, complaints, whistle-blowing, disciplinary proceedings, coroner's courts and criminal law. Readers benefit from short summaries of cases, sources of legal information are identified and explained, and more.

Table of contents:
  1. Structure and sources of English law
  2. Principles of negligence; duty and standard of care
  3. Foreseeability and causation
  4. Financial considerations: compensation and costs
  5. Legal procedure; dispute resolution; role of expert witnesses
  6. Confidentiality and disclosure
  7. Consent; minors and the mentally incapacitated; research; training
  8. Complaints, whistle-blowing and disciplinary proceedings
  9. Doctors and the coroner's court
  10. Doctors and the criminal law

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