Product Description: The Jurisprudent Physician is a medical-legal primer that provides an illuminating look at issues, problems, and situations that often unnecessarily baffle, and sometimes intimidate, even the most confident medical practitioners. The book will help you: Understand the basic workings of our legal system; See how malpractice lawyers think and work; Learn why patients sue doctors; Understand the nature of the legal relationship between doctor and patient; Reduce the likelihood of legal claims; Make, maintain, use, and release medical records to your best advantage; Appreciate legal perils and pitfalls associated with private, hospital, and managed care practice; Understand the physician's role as an expert; Testify in depositions, hearings, and court; Follow the course of a medical malpractice case from beginning to end...read more

Product Description: Incorporating in-depth interviews, statistical data, and prior studies, Fielding illustrates how modern medicine is a victim of its own success. The historical record since the early 19th century shows that the rate of malpractice claims has increased as medicine developed new and more complex procedures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of legalities on medical treatment. Physicians today are apprehensive about the threat of malpractice suits...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This practical, easy-to-understand handbook provides advice that helps physicians lower their risk of being sued for malpractice. Legal rules are translated by legal experts into everyday language and specific steps to lower the risks of liability are provided...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Patient compliance or noncompliance has a significant impact on both the diagnosis and treatment of any medical condition. This book analyzes patient compliance in medical malpractice cases. It discusses how compliance or noncompliance can be evaluated and presented by experts. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Defending the Breast Cancer Malpractice Case

Product Description: From practical to philosophical considerations, this succinct, clear presentation of medical malpractice issues is a valuable resource for the classroom and the reference shelf. Frank M. McClellan illustrates the multitude of considerations that impact the merit of each case, never losing sight of the importance of preserving human dignity in malpractice lawsuits...read more

Provides a disturbing study of the modern health-care system, examining such issues as the costs of malpractice insurance, discussing medical abuses, and calling for protection against the irresponsible practice of medicine. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: In this explosive exposé of our health care system, Paul Jesilow, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis uncover the dark side of physician practice. Using interviews with doctors and federal, state, and private officials and extensive investigation of case files, they tell the stories of doctors who profit from abortions on women who aren't pregnant, of needless surgery, overcharging for services, and excessive testing...read more

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Covers the physician's duties to patients, the elements of malpractice, performance grounds, and malpractice defenses, and also looks at attorney malpractice

Examines the medical malpractice crisis, suggests shifting insurance responsibility from doctors to hospitals, and proposes a no-fault liability system