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By . American College of Legal Medicine
Description Regarded as the citable treatise in the field, the 7th Edition of Legal Medicine explores and illustrates the legal implications of medical
practice and the special legal issues arising from managed care. Edited by the American College of Legal Medicine Textbook Committee,
it features comprehensive discussions on a myriad of legal issues that health care professionals face every day. Substantially revised
and expanded and written in a plain manner, this New Edition includes 20 brand-new chapters that address the hottest topics in the field
today. Will also serve as the syllabus for the Board Review Course of the American Board of Legal Medicine (ABLM).
Audience
Physicians, Nurses, Hospital administrators, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and Health Lawyers
Contents 1. Introduction: Legal Medicine
PART ONE: MEDICAL LICENSURE, CREDENTIALING AND PRIVILEGING, PROFILING AND IMPAIRMENT
2
Medical Practice: Education and Licensure 3 Medical Staff Peer Review in the Credentialing and Privileging of Physicians 4 Physician
Profile Databases 5 Health Care Professional Impairment
PART TWO: BUSINESS ASPECTS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE
6
Health Care Provider Contracts 7 Agency 8 Antitrust 9 Complementary and Alternative Medicine 10 Practice
Organizations and Joint Ventures 11 Coproviders and Institutional Practice 12 Physician as an Employer 13 Health Professionals
and the Regulated Industry: The Laws and Regulations Enforced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 14 Health Insurance and
Professional Liability Insurance 15 Patents, Intellectual Property, and Licenses 16 Federal Health Information Privacy Requirements
PART
THREE: MEDICOLEGAL AND ETHICAL ENCOUNTERS
17 Ethics and Bioethics 18 Research and Experimentation 19 The Human
Genome Project 20 Legal Interests of the Fetal Patient 21 Organ Donation and Transplantation 22 Life Care Planning: Ethical
and Legal Issues 23 The Process of Dying 24 Physician-Assisted Suicide and Palliative Sedation
PART
FOUR: PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL LIABILITY
25 Medical Malpractice Overview 26 Patient Safety and Health Care Quality 27
Medications Errors 28 Disclosure of Adverse Outcome and Apologizing to Injured Patient 29 Risk Management 30 Alternative
Dispute Resolution 31 Physicians-Patient Relationship 32 Competency and Capacity: A Primer 33 Informed Consent to Medical
and Surgical Treatment 34 Medical Records: Paper and Electronic 35 Medical Testimony and the Expert Witness 36 Liability
of Health Care Entities for Negligent Care 37 Liability of Managed Care Organizations 38 Pharmacist Malpractice and Liability 39 Medical Product Liability 40 Telemedicine and Electronic Mail Communication with Patients 41 Professional Liability in
Emergency Medicine 42 Legal Issues in Newborn Intensive Care 43 Liability in Obstetrics and Gynecology 44 Liability of
Ophthalmologists 45 Liability of Otolaryngologists 46 Liability of Radiologists 47 Liability of Neurologists 48 Liability
of Plastic Surgeons 49 Nursing and the Law 50 Dental Litigation: Triad of Concerns 51 Criminalization of Medical Negligence 52 Crimes by Health Care Providers 53 Countersuits by Health Care Providers 54 No-Fault Medical Malpractice System in New
Zealand
PART FIVE: CARE OF SPECIAL PATIENTS
55 Children as Patients 56 Child Abuse 57 Domestic
Violence Patients 58 Geriatric Patients 59 Cancer Genetics: Discrimination And Counseling 60 Brain-Injured Patients 61
Patients with HIV Infection and AIDS 62 The Law and the Relief of Pain: Pain Management 63 Sports Medicine
PART
SIX: FORENSIC SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
64 Forensic Pathology 65 Forensic Engineering 66 Forensic Toxicology 67
Forensic Psychiatry 68 Criminalistics 69 Forensic Entomology 70 Forensic Odontology 71 Utilization of Forensic
Science in the Civil and Criminal Justice Systems: Forensic Use of Medical Information
PART SEVEN: LEGAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC
HEALTH
72 Occupational Health Law 73 Public Health Law 74 Legal Aspects Of Bioterrorism
PART
EIGHT: INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
75 Physician Licensing and Disciplining in England and Europe 76 Privacy 77 Drivers
and the Law
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