Legal medicine / American College of Legal Medicine Textbook Committee, S. Sandy Sanbar ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

American College of Legal Medicine.

Sanbar, Shafeek S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical laws and legislation--United States.

Medical laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (765 p.)

Edition:

7th ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Mosby/Elsevier, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 R

Contents:

Front Cover; Legal Medicine: American College of Legal Medicine Texbook Committee; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction: Legal Medicine; HISTORY OF LEGAL MEDICINE; LEGAL MEDICINE IN AMERICA; HEALTH LAW IN LAW SCHOOLS; DUAL MD/JD DEGREES; MEDICAL ETHICS AND LEGAL MEDICINE IN MEDICAL SCHOOLS; POSTGRADUATE LEGAL MEDICINE EDUCATION; CONCLUSION; Part I: Medical Licensure, Credentialing and Privileging, Profiling, and Impairment; Chapter 2. Medical Practice: Education and Licensure; THE ""RIGHT"" TO BE A PHYSICIAN; MEDICAL SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA

MEDICAL SCHOOL RETENTION AND GRADUATIONMEDICAL LICENSURE; CONCLUSION; Chapter 3. Medical Staff Peer Review in the Credentialing and Privileging of Physicians; MEDICAL STAFF PEER REVIEW; CREDENTIALING; PRIVILEGING; PROCTORING; DUE PROCESS; PHYSICIAN RIGHTS UNDER MANAGED CARE; APPLICATION OF DUE PROCESS PRINCIPLES; CONFIDENTIALITY AND PEER REVIEW PRIVILEGE; PEER REVIEW CORRECTIVE ACTION: AN UNFAIR PROCESS?; Chapter 4. Physician Profile Databases; GROUPING OF DATABASES; CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION; CONSUMER-ACCESSED DATABASES; PUBLISHING MALPRACTICE INFORMATION

RELIABILITY OF MALPRACTICE INFORMATIONEMERGING TYPES OF INFORMATION; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES; Chapter 5. Health Care Professional Impairment; ADDICTIVE DISORDERS ARE CHRONIC MEDICAL ILLNESSES; DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ADDICTIVE DISORDERS; PATIENT MEDICAL RECORDS ARE PROTECTED; ADDICTION AS A DISABLING ILLNESS; POLICY PROVISIONS: INDIVIDUAL DISABILITY INCOME POLICIES; POLICY PROVISIONS: GROUP POLICIES (LONG-TERM DISABILITY); LEGAL ISSUES/DEFENSES; CONCLUSION; Part II: Business Aspects of Medical Practice; Chapter 6. Health Care Provider Contracts

MANAGED HEALTH CARE GOALS: EFFECT ON CONTRACTING HEALTH CARE PROVIDERSCONTRACTING AND REIMBURSEMENT: HEALTH CARE PROVIDER CONTRACTS; CONTRACT ANALYSIS; CONCLUSION; Chapter 7. Agency; THE LAW OF AGENCY; PARTIES AND THE RELATIONSHIP; RIGHTS AND DUTIES BETWEEN PRINCIPAL AND AGENT; LIABILITIES OF PARTIES BASED IN TORT; Chapter 8. Antitrust; HISTORY AND INTRODUCTION; CONDUCT VIOLATIONS; ENFORCEMENT; DEFENSES; ROBINSON-PATMAN ACT; RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ANTITRUST AND HEALTH CARE REFORM; Chapter 9. Complementary and Alternative Medicine

INTRODUCTION: RECOGNITION OF COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (CAM) BY THE BIOMEDICAL COMMUNITYDISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES; PARTICULAR CAM PRACTICES; UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT STANDARD; MEDICAL FREEDOM ACTS; MEDICAL MALPRACTICE; MALPRACTICE LIABILITY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY; MALPRACTICE LIABILITY FOR CAM REFERRAL; CONCLUSION; Chapter 10. Practice Organizations and Joint Ventures; PRACTICE ORGANIZATIONS AMONG PHYSICIANS; MANAGED HEALTH CARE; JOINT VENTURES; ANTITRUST CONSIDERATIONS; REGULATORY AND RELATED CONSIDERATIONS; CONCLUSION; Chapter 11. Coproviders and Institutional Practice; COPROVIDERS

INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-323-07607-6

OCLC:

862103908