Legal and ethical issues for health professionals

Legal and ethical issues for health professionals

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Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals is a concise and practical guide to legal and ethical dilemmas facing health care professionals today. This book will help the reader to better understand the issues they will face on the job and its implications in the legal arena. This text present...

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Main Author: Pozgar, George D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sudbury, Mass Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2010
Edition:SECOND EDITION
Subjects:
Legislation, Medical > United States
Ethics, Medical > United States
Ethics, Clinical > United States
Patient Rights > United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to ethics
  • Contemporary ethical dilemmas
  • End-of-life dilemmas
  • Health care ethics committee
  • Development of law
  • Introduction to law
  • Government, ethics, and the law
  • Organizational ethics and the law
  • Health care professionals' ethical and legal issues
  • Physicians' ethical and legal issues
  • Employee rights and responsibilities
  • Patient consent
  • Patient abuse
  • Patient rights and responsibilities.

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