Clinical law for clinical practice / Robert Wheeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheeler, Robert (Consultant neonatal and pediatric surgeon), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical laws and legislation.

United Kingdom.

Medical Subjects:

United Kingdom.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 148 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Clinicians must practice medicine in conformity with regulatory requirements. That is the daily challenge, and those requirements are founded on medical law. This book describes how clinical law has been applied in numerous cases, thus providing a clinical appraisal of the law which is directly applicable to clinical practice in the United Kingdom"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Adults who refuse blood

Discussing the prospects of cardiopulmonary resuscitation

What should be disclosed when seeking consent

Deprivation in Essex

The first glimpse of a duty to warn?

Can a patient choose her surgeon?

Sentiments

Unwise decisions

Consulting relatives

Doctrine of double effect

Needle phobia

Candid over complications

Examining patients with their consent

Covert treatment

Can blood be compulsorily administered under the Mental Health Act 1983?

Genetic confidentiality

Refusing hospital discharge

Consent for a cannula

Changing direction in severe anorexia

Be informed : then disclose

Withdrawing treatment in a young man

The value of going to court

Articulating best interests

Loyal Friends

Apply to court?

Disclosing the miniscule risk when seeking consent

Obtaining consent

Deprivation of Liberty : the story so far

Falling from hospital property

Gross negligence manslaughter : perhaps better, "betrayal of trust"?

Interpretation

A narrow dispute

A right to be told?

"But all life is an experiment"

Avoid discouraging patients from waiting to be treated

Mixed messages

It is for clinicians to identify foreseeable risks

Separating twins

Body modification

Seeking the approval of a court for paternity testing

Children refusing treatment

Can we rely on our Advance Decisions?

Is there a role for "next of kin"?

Preaching to patients

Information classification : general

Deceiving patients

Determining incapacity

Reasons for refusing blood?

Justifying the termination of a pregnancy

The feasibility of a covert Caesarean section

Communicating risk : words or numbers?

Stark compulsion in grave circumstances

Going to court too soon

Best interests in the absence of suffering

Patients value candour

Informed consent & informed dissent : two sides of a coin?

Parental consent for their child's deprivation of liberty

Vulnerable with capacity

Compulsory treatment for diabetes

Approving palliation

Acquiescence : not consent

Making clinical legal decisions.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-07952-X

0-429-32058-2

1-000-07944-9

9780429320583

OCLC:

1141038152