Beschreibung:
The aim of this book is not to encourage defensive medical practice, but to help provide better, optimum care to patients and to be forth right and honest to our dear customers about our inevitable mistakes.
This book will focus on clinical issues facing physicians in different settings (which can lead to malpractice), and the best approach to use to avoid litigations, and practice good medicine.
Medico-Legal Issues in Infectious Diseases helps physicians avoid diagnosis issues that often lead to litigation. The text provides problem-solving challenges that physicians often face in various practices and subspecialties.
Helps provide some guide to physicians dealing with a variety of infections to avoid pitfalls in diagnosis and management that often predispose litigations
Preface.- General Principles.- Complaints related to the head.- Conditions of the skin/soft tissue in the ER.- Litigation in infections of Obstetrics & Gynecology.- Looking Beyond the Obvious.- Failure to counsel can lead to litigation.- Litigations for unexpected adverse events.- Orthopedic complications.- Neurosurgical medico-legal issues.- Litigations in General Surgery.- Litigation for infection in plastic surgery.- Litigations for HIV-related complications.- Overview of medico-legal issues.- Index.