Legal medicine /
Sanbar, Shafeek S.
American College of Legal Medicine.
Philadelphia, PA : Mosby,
c2004.
"American College of Legal Medicine."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Legal medicine: historical roots and current status -- Health care provider contracts -- Agency -- Competency and capacity: a primer -- Antitrust -- Alternative dispute resolution -- Medical practice: education and licensure -- Medical staff peer review in the credentialing and privileging of physicians -- Physician profile databases -- Health care professional impairment -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Practice organizations and joint ventures -- Coproviders and institutional practice -- Physician as an employer -- Health professionals and the regulated industry: the laws and regulations enforced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- Health insurance and professional liability insurance -- Risk management -- Patents, intellectual property, and licenses -- Federal health information privacy requirements -- Ethics and bioethics -- Access to medical care -- Research and experimentation -- The human genome project -- Fetal interests -- Organ donation and transplantation -- Life care planning: ethical and legal issues -- The process of dying -- Physician-assisted suicide -- Medical malpractice overview -- Physician-patient relationship -- Informed consent to medical and surgical treatment -- Medical records -- Electronic records -- Medical testimony and the expert witness -- Liability of health care entities for negligent care -- Liability of managed care organizations -- Medical product liability -- Electronic mail communication with patients --
Telemedicine -- Legal issues in newborn intensive care -- Liability of ophthalmologists -- Liability of otolaryngologists -- Liability of radiologists -- Legal issues of prehospital emergency medical systems -- Professional liability in emergency medicine -- Liability of neurologists -- Nursing and the law -- Dental litigation: triad of concerns -- Criminalization of medical negligence -- Crimes by health care providers -- Countersuits by health care providers -- Children as patients -- Domestic violence patients -- Geriatric patients -- Oncology patients -- Brain-injured patients -- Patients with HIV infection and AIDS -- Pain management -- Sports medicine -- Competitive athletes: cardiovascular preparticipation screening -- Impairment, disability, and work issues -- Occupational health law -- Public health law -- Legal aspects of bioterrorism -- Forensic pathology -- Forensic engineering -- Forensic toxicology -- Psychiatric patients and forensic psychiatry -- Criminalistics -- Forensic entomology -- Forensic odontology -- Utilization of forensic science in the civil and criminal justice systems: forensic use of medical information -- Physician licensing and disciplining in England and Europe -- Privacy -- Drivers and the law.
Medical laws and legislation