Medical malpractice
Subtitle: a physician's sourcebook
By: edited by Richard E. Anderson.
Contributors: Anderson, Richard E.
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Physicians -- Malpractice -- United States; Malpractice -- United States; Insurance, Liability -- United States; Medicine -- United States; Physicians -- United States
Description: A comprehensive presentation of the origin, nature, and ramifications of the medical malpractice litigation crisis, as well as possible solutions and alternatives to the current troubled system. The authors focus on the clinical face of litigation from the perspective of the practicing physician in a variety of specialties, ranging from family and emergency medicine to anesthesiology, obstetrics, gynecology, and plastic surgery. Special consideration is given to breast cancer and Pap smear litigation, risk management for the family physician, the emerging significance of e-medicine, and the importance of effective patient communication. Additional legal chapters examine the litigation process itself, offering insight into winning medical malpractice lawsuits, the role of the physician as expert witness or defendant, the process of discovery and deposition, and how a plaintiff's attorney views risk reduction. For public policy debate, the authors spell out the case for legal r.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Insuring the practice of medicine / Mark Gorney and Richard E. Anderson; title: What every doctor should know about litigation : a primer on how to win medical malpractice lawsuits / Fred J. Hiestand; title: Risk reduction from a plaintiff attorney's perspective / David Wm. Horan; title: The physician as a witness / Joel A. Mattison; title: The judicial process : discovery and deposition / Jonathan I. Epstein; title: Communication and patient safety / Mark Gorney; title: E-medicine in the physician's office / Edward Fotsch; title: Risk management for the family physician / Malcolm H. Weiss; title: Emergency medicine / Michael Jay Bresler; title: Anesthesiology / Ann S. Lofsky; title: Malpractice and medical practice : obstetrics and gynecology / Jack M. Schneider; title: Breast cancer litigation / Richard E. Anderson and David B. Troxel; title: Pap smear litigation / David B. Troxel; title: Medical liability in plastic and reconstructive surgery / Mark Gorney; title: The case for legal reform / Richard E. Anderson; title: Health policy review : medical malpractice / David M. Studdert, Michelle M. Mello, and Troyen A. Brennan; title: New directions in medical liability reform / William M. Sage.