Legal Issues in Medical Practice Medicolegal Guidelines for Safe Practice

Abstract

Legal Issues in Medical Practice Medicolegal Guidelines for Safe Practice has presented essential information on various medicolegal aspects involved in day-to-day clinical practice. Most of the pertinent issues like medical ethics, informed consent, medical documentation, medical negligence, and various laws applicable to the medical professionals have been elaborated in the book. A separate section on medicolegal issues related to various specialties has presented ‘practice management strategies’ for safe clinical practice. Chapters on various medicolegal issues are written by the specialists who are well experienced in clinical as well as medicolegal domain. The book comprises of 24 chapters divided into five sections: Sec I (Medical Ethics and Law); Sec II (Documentation of Patient Care: The Legal Aspects); Sec III (Litigation against Medical Practitioners); Sec IV (Medical Laws and Judgments Governing the Medical Professionals); Sec V (Medicolegal Issues in Various Specialties). Dr. VP Singh, an authority in medical laws has edited the chapters, and presented a reliable medicolegal book with a problem solving approach. The guiding principles recommended in the book are well supported by relevant judgments from Indian Courts. This book is a step-by-step guide that provides basic understanding of medicolegal principles in a simple language, and enables a busy medical practitioner to establish safe clinical practice. In nutshell, this book is a must read for every healthcare professional.