Medico-Legal Issues in Infectious Diseases helps physicians avoid diagnosis issues that often lead to litigation. The text provides problem-solving challenges that physicians often face in various practices and subspecialties.

The aim of this book is not to encourage defensive medical practice, but to help provide better, optimum care to patients and to be forth right and honest to our dear customers about our inevitable mistakes.This book will focus on clinical issues facing physicians in different settings (which can lead to malpractice), and the best approach to use to avoid litigations, and practice good medicine.

Helps provide some guide to physicians dealing with a variety of infections to avoid pitfalls in diagnosis and management that often predispose litigations Gives case scenarios in the format of problem-solving challenges faced by physicians in various practices and subspecialties Helps provide better, optimum care to patients and encourages honesty and fairness with our patients when addressing our inevitable mistakes Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Ignatius Fong is the Editor of Springer's Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century series. He has served as Chief Editor for six books and the sole author for another six books published in the series. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto and as a Fellow in Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Fong has published studies concerning a variety of infectious diseases that include therapeutics and pharmacology of antibiotics, AIDS and the treatment of opportunistic infections, mechanistic and treatment studies of mucosal candidiasis, and pathogenic studies on infection and induction of atherosclerosis in animal models. He was Chief of Infectious Diseases at St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto) for 34 years; he is still on staff in Infectious Diseases and is a Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Klappentext

Despite the fact that most physicians will encounter medical litigation at some point in their careers, they have few resources for navigating through legal issues within the body of medical literature. With this in mind, this volume provides guidance to physicians and researchers.

As the latest in the Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century series, it gives case scenarios in the format of problem-solving challenges faced by physicians in various practices and subspecialties. It covers topics including issues in the surgical and neurosurgical disciplines, obstetrics and gynecological infections, skin/soft tissue conditions, fevers, and complications related to HIV. It also gives information medical liability laws around the world.

Rather than encourage defensive medical practice, this book provides information on administering better care and being honest and fair with patients when addressing inevitable mistakes. It is a must for all practicing physicians.

Inhalt
Preface.- General Principles.- Complaints related to the head.- Conditions of the skin/soft tissue in the ER.- Litigation in infections of Obstetrics & Gynecology.- Looking Beyond the Obvious.- Failure to counsel can lead to litigation.- Litigations for unexpected adverse events.- Orthopedic complications.- Neurosurgical medico-legal issues.- Litigations in General Surgery.- Litigation for infection in plastic surgery.- Litigations for HIV-related complications.- Overview of medico-legal issues.- Index.