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Legal Issues in Medicine: An International Approach examines the laws, regulations, and ethical principles that govern medical practice globally. It begins by surveying the medicolegal scenario country by country, comparing negligence systems in some forty to fifty nations worldwide-a depth and scope few medicolegal texts attempt. Written by the editor of Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology and drawing on forty-five years of testimony in courts, commissions, tribunals, and arbitrations, the book is encyclopedic in scope and fully referenced throughout.

Designed and intended as a working reference, the book features approximately 125 case studies drawn from all six inhabited continents. Every case study concludes with take-home lessons-what the doctor, nurse, pharmacist, or hospital should take away, and noting whether the defendants were or were not held liable. Every specialty chapter sets out the legal issues unique and specific to that field, including helpful do's and don't's for practitioners. Readers learn how to avoid common pitfalls including failure to diagnose, breach of confidentiality, absent informed consent, and poor documentation.

The chapters span fifty specialties - from allergy to urology - , covering such relevant topics as cardiology, emergency medicine, genomic medicine, HIV/AIDS, medical records, minimal access surgery, nephrology, occupational medicine, ophthalmology, pain medicine, pathology, radiology, respiratory medicine, sexual medicine, surgery, telemedicine, toxicology, transplant medicine, and procedures of all kinds. A final chapter addresses less-discussed subjects such as biobanks, travel medicine, game theory in medical law, prescription digital therapeutics, regenerative medicine, and toxic mold litigation.

The appendices include a glossary of over 170 legal terms, a guide to reading legal citations that assumes no prior legal knowledge, and the author's own laws of medicolegal practice reinforced by cases from his extensive personal experience. Legal Issues in Medicine serves as an essential, comprehensive resource for medical libraries, physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, forensic pathologists and toxicologists, hospital administrators, review boards, attorneys, and judges throughout the world.

Zusammenfassung
Legal Issues in Medicine: An International Approach examines the laws, regulations, and ethical principles that govern medical practice globally.

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1 Introduction 2 General Medico legal issues 3 Medical negligence suits - Prevention and Solutions 4 Legal aspects of Allergies 5 Legal aspects of Anesthesia 6 Legal issues in Burn care 7 Legal issues in Cardiology and Cardiovascular surgery 8 Legal issues in Colorectal surgery 9 Legal issues in Complementary and Alternative Medicine 10 Legal issues in Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery 11 Legal issues in Dental and Oral care 12 Legal issues in Dermatology and Sexually transmitted Diseases 13 Legal issues in Emergency, critical and intensive care 14 Legal issues in Endocrinology 15 Legal issues in Facio-Maxillary surgery 16 Legal issues in Family Medicine 17 Legal issues in Gastroenterology and endoscopy 18 Legal issues in Genomic Medicine 19 Legal issues in Geriatric Medicine 20 Legal issues in Gynecology and Obstetrics 21 Legal issues in Hematology, Transfusion medicine and Blood banks 22 Legal and Ethical issues in HIV/AIDS 23 Legal issues in Internal Medicine 24 Legal aspects of Medical Records 25 Legal issues in Minimal Access Surgery 26 Legal issues in Nanomedicine 27 Legal issues in Nephrology 28 Legal issues in Neurosciences [Neurology, Neurosurgery, Headache] 29 Legal issues in Nuclear Medicine 30 Legal issues in Nursing and Medical assistantship 31 Legal issues in Occupational Medicine 32 Legal issues in Oncology 33 Legal issues in Ophthalmology 34 Legal issues in Orthopedics 35 Legal issues in Otorhinolaryngology 36 Legal issues in Pain Medicine and Palliative Care 37 Legal issues in Pathology and Microbiology 38 Legal issues in Pediatrics and Neonatology 39 Legal issues in Pharmacology and pharmacy practice 40 Legal issues in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation 41 Legal issues in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy 42 Legal issues in Radiology and Radiotherapy 43 Legal issues in Respiratory Medicine 44 Legal issues in Rheumatology 45 Legal issues in Sexual Medicine 46 Legal issues in Sleep Medicine 47 Legal issues in Sports Medicine 48 Legal issues in Surgery 49 Legal issues in Telemedicine 50 Legal issues in Toxicology 51 Legal issues in Transplant Medicine 52 Legal issues in Urology 53 Miscellaneous Medico legal problems