Recognising legal questions in clinical practice
CHAPTER 2 Recognising legal questions in clinical practice 2.1 Ethics and law in clinical practice [2.1.1] Why is it important to identify legal issues that arise in clinical practice? Doctors…
GENERAL SURGERY
Incompetent patients and substitute decision-making
CHAPTER 8 Incompetent patients and substitute decision-making 8.1 Substitute decision-making [8.1.1] What if an incompetent patient needs treatment? Once it has been determined that a patient is incompetent, the health…
Negligence and standards of care
CHAPTER 4 Negligence and standards of care 4.1 Negligence [4.1.1] What is negligence? A claim in negligence is a civil claim that is successfully brought when one person, the tortfeasor…
Aspects of the therapeutic relationship
CHAPTER 5 Aspects of the therapeutic relationship 5.1 Non-tortious legal duties [5.1.1.] While most attention in health law is given to the law of tort, other legal duties arise in…
Competence
CHAPTER 7 Competence 7.1 Assessing the competence of patients to give consent [7.1.1] What is meant by ‘competence to consent to medical treatment’? As chapter 6 makes clear, consent is…
Coagulation and Transfusion
Chapter 78 Coagulation and Transfusion Rohit A. Patel, MD, Kevin M. Bradley, MD Cases Considered 1. 22-year-old male for preoperative assessment of bleeding risk 2. 55-year-old female with ongoing bleeding…
Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter 76 Mechanical Ventilation Rashna F. Ginwalla, MD, Leah Lande, MD, John Mullarkey, RRT, Thomas A. Santora, MD Cases Considered 1. 80-year-old male admitted for an elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy is…
The Art of Oral Presentation
Chapter 9 The Art of Oral Presentation Paul J. Schenarts, MD, Mary Ann Hopkins, MPhil, MD Communication skills form the basis of medicine. Throughout your entire career, you will communicate…
Multiple System Organ Failure
Chapter 81 Multiple System Organ Failure Mark J. Seamon, MD, Abhijit S. Pathak, MD Cases Considered 1. Multiple system organ failure (MSOF) in a 58-year-old male with acute pancreatitis 2….
