This is a complete, accessible, and up-to-date guide to the law and ethics of healthcare. Written for health professionals of all kinds – not lawyers – MEDICAL LAW AND ETHICS, 4/e covers the full spectrum of topics that affect practice. Fully updated coverage includes: the legal system, professional liability and medical malpractice, physician’s responsibilities, medical records, ethical and bioethical issues, and current regulations. Actual legal cases illuminate subjects ranging from patient confidentiality and abortion to death and dying. Exclusive Med Tips provide quick scenarios and guidance about law and ethics. Each chapter contains glossary terms, exercises, and an actual case; appendices provide current sample codes of ethics.
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Excellent overview of medical law and ethics
1 Sep 2011
By Chris Conner
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Lots of important detail. A book I will keep for future business and regular life applications. It covers subjects well, but also does a good job of offering information for a class that is an overview and limited by just the 3 credits we had for this class. I gained a lot of education from this text.
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Does not consider enforcement realities
21 May 2013
By Eric K. Pritchard
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This book did not help at all with the ethics of state enforcement of errant medical practice guidelines and policy statements. A Federal Appeals court in Wilk v. AMA cited the US Supreme Court ruling in Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar, which stated that enforced guidelines are not voluntary, but mandatory. So, when a physician is faced with an errant guideline, he must choose between proper care of his patient and facing the liabilities of potential adverse state action by his board of medicine. A physician who values his ethics more than he fears his board of medicine will treat the patient properly. But other physicians will virtually abandon their patients in favor of the safety of complying with unscientific guidelines. In spite of being a huge ethical issue, this situation is not discussed.
This book also does not discuss the lack of ethics in evidence based medicine as it condones the ignoring of all medical evidence not produced by way of randomized clinical trials. The expense of these trials means that Big Pharma will control our health care. Where are the ethics in this marketing ploy? Not addressed.
This book also does not discuss the lack of ethics in evidence based medicine as it condones the ignoring of all medical evidence not produced by way of randomized clinical trials. The expense of these trials means that Big Pharma will control our health care. Where are the ethics in this marketing ploy? Not addressed.
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2 May 2013
By A. Hockenberry
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I purchased this book for my Medical Law and Ethics online class and it definitely served it's purpose. Great purchase!
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