Author : Marcia Mobilia Boumil
Publisher : West Academic
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780314232939
Reliable source on medical liability law. Written by experts in the field, this Nutshell offers insight on establishing professional relationships and examines negligence-based claims, intentional torts, causation, damages, affirmative defenses, limitations, immunities, and liabilities. It also provides an overview of medical care liability issues affecting hospitals and managed care organizations.
Author : Marcia Mobilia Boumil
Publisher : West Publishing Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN :
Establishing the Professional Relationship; Negligence-Based Claims; Intentional Torts; Informed Decision Making; Causation and Damages; Affirmative Defenses; Limitations and Immunities; Vicarious Liability and Multiple Defendants; Hospital Liability; Contract, Warranty and Strict Liability; Reforming the Litigation System.
Author : Marcia Mobilia Boumil
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780314142955
Reliable source on medical liability law. Written by experts in the field, this Nutshell offers insight on establishing professional relationships and examines negligence-based claims, intentional torts, causation, damages, affirmative defenses, limitations, immunities, and liabilities.
Author : Joseph H. King
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Marcia Mobilia Boumil
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Medical personnel
ISBN :
"Reliable source on medical liability law. Written by experts in the field, this Nutshell offers insight on establishing professional relationships and examines negligence-based claims, intentional torts, causation, damages, affirmative defenses, limitations, immunities, and liabilities. It also provides an overview of medical care liability issues affecting hospitals and managed care organizations."--
Author : Tan Siang-yong
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2006-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9813106654
This textbook is about the law of medical malpractice and how to prevent a malpractice lawsuit. It grew out of an earlier book covering medical negligence in Singapore. The book's primary goal is to provide a clear and simple explanation of the American law of medical malpractice, informed consent and risk management. Written with the clinician in mind, it is legally uncomplicated without being overly simplistic. The book is as much about medicine as it is about law; above all, it is about patients. It is written with the fervent belief that with better education, there will emerge a better appreciation of the expectations of the patient — often unmet — and the standards of the legal system — often misunderstood. Fewer lawsuits and improved patient care will hopefully follow.The book is in five sections. The first covers the law of malpractice and informed consent while the second covers risk management with chapters on confidentiality, communication and risk management tips. Section III is a single chapter on reforming the system, and discusses both medical and legal proposals. The subject of tort reforms is covered in this chapter. A review section consisting of 35 multiple choice questions and answers constitutes Section IV. The book concludes with a glossary of legal terms.
Author : Dieter Giesen
Publisher :
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Arzthaftpflicht
ISBN :
Author : Mark A. Hall
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical laws and legislation
ISBN : 9780735570054
Medical Liability and Treatment Relationships, Second Edition, derived from the authors’ well-known casebook Health Care Law and Ethics, Seventh Edition, Is the ideal casebook for any course that concentrates on medical malpractice and liability or the relationships between patients and providers. This specialized casebook, like its parent book, integrates public policy and legal doctrine and features clear notes that provide context, smooth transitions between cases, and background information. Coverage includes: materials based on Part I of the parent book, “The Provider And The Patient,” as well as coverage of professional licensure and regulating access to drugs materials on medical malpractice not found in the parent book: Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Notes on forensic medicine and epidemiological evidence and a problem on practice guidelines Duquette v. Superior Court on the “ex parte contact” rule in discovery a comprehensive web site, www.health-law.org, that provides background materials, updates of important events, additional relevant topics and links to other resources on the Internet. New To The Second Edition: Liability implications of consumer-driven health care The latest information about the medical malpractice crisis Adams v. Via Christi Regional Medical Center - on forming a treatment relationship Medical Liability and Treatment Relationships, Second Edition, Is precisely the book for any course or seminar that focuses on the many aspects of medical treatment relationships or the potential for medical liability.
Author : Santo Davide Ferrara
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3642358314
Medical responsibility lawsuits have become a fact of life in every physician’s medical practice. However, there is evidence that physicians are increasingly practising defensive medicine, ordering more tests than may be necessary and avoiding patients with complicated conditions. The modern practice of medicine is increasingly complicated by factors beyond the traditional realm of patient care, including novel technologies, loss of physician autonomy, and economic pressures. A continuing and significant issue affecting physicians and the healthcare system is malpractice. In the latter half of the 20th century, there was a major change in the attitude of the public towards the medical profession. People were made aware of the huge advances in medical technology, because health problems increasingly tended to attract media interest and wide publicity. Medicine is a victim of its own success in this respect, and people are now led to expect the latest techniques and perfect outcomes on all occasions. This burst of technology and hyper-specialization in many fields of medicine means that each malpractice claim is transformed into a scientific challenge, requiring specific preparation in analysis and judgment of the clinical case in question. The role of legal medicine becomes more and more peculiar in this judicial setting, often giving rise to erroneous interpretations and hasty scientific verdicts, but guidelines on the methodology of ascertainments and criteria of evaluation are lacking all over the world.The aim of this volume is to clarify the steps required for sequential in-depth analysis of events and consequences of medical actions, in order to verify whether, in the presence of damage, errors or non-observance of rules of conduct by health personnel exist, and which causal values and links of their hypothetical misconduct are involved.
Author : Paul C. Weiler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Insurance, Physicians' liability
ISBN : 9780674558809
A Measure of Malpractice tells the story and presents the results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study, the largest and most comprehensive investigation ever undertaken of the performance of the medical malpractice system. The Harvard study was commissioned by the government of New York in 1986, in the midst of a malpractice crisis that had driven insurance premiums for surgeons and obstetricians in New York City to nearly $200,000 a year. The Harvard-based team of doctors, lawyers, economists, and statisticians set out to investigate what was actually happening to patients in hospitals and to doctors in courtrooms, launching a far more informed debate about the future of medical liability in the 1990s. Careful analysis of the medical records of 30,000 patients hospitalized in 1984 showed that approximately one in twenty-five patients suffered a disabling medical injury, one quarter of these as a result of the negligence of a doctor or other provider. After assembling all the malpractice claims filed in New York State since 1975, the authors found that just one in eight patients who had been victims of negligence actually filed a malpractice claim, and more than two-thirds of these claims were filed by the wrong patients. The study team then interviewed injured patients in the sample to discover the actual financial loss they had experienced: the key finding was that for roughly the same dollar amount now being spent on a tort system that compensates only a handful of victims, it would be possible to fund comprehensive disability insurance for all patients significantly disabled by a medical accident. The authors, who came to the project from very different perspectives about the present malpractice system, are now in agreement about the value of a new model of medical liability. Rather than merely tinker with the current system which fixes primary legal responsibility on individual doctors who can be proved medically negligent, legislatures should encourage health care organizations to take responsibility for the financial losses of all patients injured in their care.
