Medical law for the attending physician: a case oriented analysis

✍ Scribed by Salvatore Francis Fiscina

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A clinician, attorney, educator, and medico-legal consultant, Fiscina analyzes the interac­tion between law and medicine by presenting legal issues and principles derived from clini­cal situations familiar to attending physi­cians, medical students, and others involved in health care. The case studies will permit physicians to observe and assess whether or not their pro­fessional conduct is legally acceptable. The cases allow Fiscina to explore the legal im­plications of the physician’s conduct under varying clinical circumstances. Each chapter traces specifically the way the law measures performance of clinical tasks. Because medi­cal practice necessarily involves many in­stances of choice and decision, knowing the legal points of comparison generally ap­plied will permit more rational and assured choices when questions arise. Some of the case studies contain facts and circumstances that should alert a physician to the presence of questionable circumstances and propose the reasonable (in the legal sense) course of action.