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Author: American College of Legal Medicine Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0443124612 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 761
Book Description
Authored by the two primary organizations in the field, Legal Medicine: Health Care Law and Medical Ethics, 8th Edition, remains the premier treatise in this increasingly important area of medical practice. In the midst of a progressively litigious culture, this essential reference provides up-to-date information on topics surrounding professional medical liability, the business aspects of medical practice, and medicolegal and ethical issues, offering comprehensive discussions on a myriad of topics that health care professionals face every day. - Addresses the legal aspects of almost every medical topic that impacts health care professionals, using actual case studies to illustrate nuances in the law. - Offers the expert guidance of top professionals across medical and legal fields in an easy-to-read format. - Includes new chapters on Legal Medicine History; Healthcare Technology; Patients with Infectious Diseases (HIV Infection and COVID-19); General Pain Management; Opioids and Illicit Drugs: Misuse, Abuse and Addiction; Cannabis (Marijuana); Drug (Treatment) Courts; and Public Health Law and Policy. - Provides authoritative information on current issues such as the high costs of medical liability insurance for practitioners and organizations; changes in health care and the law, including HIPAA and patient privacy; the overturning of Roe v. Wade; the opioid epidemic, and more. - Features Key Points boxes to open every chapter, Pearls boxes to call out important details, additional diagrams and tables throughout, a glossary of medical terms, and updated references and suggested readings. - Serves as the syllabus for the Board Review Course of the American Board of Legal Medicine (ABLM).
Author: American College of Legal Medicine Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0443124612 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 761
Book Description
Authored by the two primary organizations in the field, Legal Medicine: Health Care Law and Medical Ethics, 8th Edition, remains the premier treatise in this increasingly important area of medical practice. In the midst of a progressively litigious culture, this essential reference provides up-to-date information on topics surrounding professional medical liability, the business aspects of medical practice, and medicolegal and ethical issues, offering comprehensive discussions on a myriad of topics that health care professionals face every day. - Addresses the legal aspects of almost every medical topic that impacts health care professionals, using actual case studies to illustrate nuances in the law. - Offers the expert guidance of top professionals across medical and legal fields in an easy-to-read format. - Includes new chapters on Legal Medicine History; Healthcare Technology; Patients with Infectious Diseases (HIV Infection and COVID-19); General Pain Management; Opioids and Illicit Drugs: Misuse, Abuse and Addiction; Cannabis (Marijuana); Drug (Treatment) Courts; and Public Health Law and Policy. - Provides authoritative information on current issues such as the high costs of medical liability insurance for practitioners and organizations; changes in health care and the law, including HIPAA and patient privacy; the overturning of Roe v. Wade; the opioid epidemic, and more. - Features Key Points boxes to open every chapter, Pearls boxes to call out important details, additional diagrams and tables throughout, a glossary of medical terms, and updated references and suggested readings. - Serves as the syllabus for the Board Review Course of the American Board of Legal Medicine (ABLM).
Author: ACLM Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323076076 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 765
Book Description
Regarded as the citable treatise in the field, the 7th Edition of Legal Medicine explores and illustrates the legal implications of medical practice and the special legal issues arising from managed care. Edited by the American College of Legal Medicine Textbook Committee, it features comprehensive discussions on a myriad of legal issues that health care professionals face every day. Substantially revised and expanded and written in a plain manner, this New Edition includes 20 brand-new chapters that address the hottest topics in the field today. Will also serve as the syllabus for the Board Review Course of the American Board of Legal Medicine (ABLM). Includes need-to-know information on telemedicine and electronic mail · medical and scientific expert testimony · medical records and disclosure about patients · and liability exposure facing managed care organizations. Addresses the legal aspects of almost every medical topic that impacts health care professionals. Uses actual case studies to illustrate nuances in the law. Discusses current trends in the peer review process · physician-assisted suicide · and managed care organizations. Offers the expert guidance of top professionals across medical and legal fields in an easy to read format. Includes a glossary of medical terms. Features many brand-new chapters, including Patient Safety · Medication Errors · Disclosure of Adverse Outcome and Apologizing to Injured Patient · Liability of Pharmacists · No-Fault Liability· Legal Aspects of Bioterrorism · and Forensic Psychiatry.
Author: Krishan Vij Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 8131238598 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 549
Book Description
Keeping the academically strong content and much appreciated way of imparting information intact, this edition has been revamped and revised to update the topics and information.• Revamped and revised edition carrying the latest information. • Radical changes have been made in the chapters carrying extreme medicolegal significance in the prevailing scenario, namely—Asphyxial Deaths (especially the herculean issue of hanging vs. strangulation); Medicolegal Examination of the Living (with eloquent analysis of the latest anti-rape law); Medicolegal Implications of Injuries (especially clarifying the concept of endangering life/dangerous to life); Firearm Injures; Medical Negligence through latest case-law, etc. • Relevant cases have been instilled to illustrate medicolegal principles encountered during day-to-day problems. • Highly illustrated text with new photographs, line drawings, flowcharts, and tables for easy understanding and presentation. • Reflects author's experience of more than three decades and the knowledge gathered from extensive reading, interactions, deliberations, etc. • Online access to MCQs with this editiion.
Author: Shankar M Bakkannavar Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 8131250474 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 262
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This Practical manual is designed to address the need of the undergraduate medical students to help them to face the practical examination with ease. This prepares the students adequately in practical aspects. Salient features: - Contains both practical and viva sections - Practical section contains exercises as well as Objective Structured Practical Examination questions - Each practical is supported by specific objectives, inference and opinions - Each practical is followed by practice exercise - Helps the students to learn practicals by themselves - Each practical contains a video link which students can download and get a classroom experience while preparing - Viva section contains most frequently asked must know and nice to know questions during practical examinations - Contains both practical and viva sections - Practical section contains exercises as well as Objective Structured Practical Examination questions - Each practical is supported by specific objectives, inference and opinions - Each practical is followed by practice exercise - Helps the students to learn practicals by themselves - Each practical contains a video link which students can download and get a classroom experience while preparing
Author: James L. Oschman Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0702065552 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 386
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See how energy therapies can normalize physiology and restore your patients’ health! Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis, 2nd Edition provides a deeper understanding of energy and energy flow in the human body. Using well-established scientific research, this book documents the presence of energy fields, discerns how those fields are generated, and determines how they are altered by disease, disorder, or injury. It then describes how therapeutic applications can restore natural energy flows within the body. Written by recognized energy medicine expert Dr. James Oschman — who is also a physiologist, cellular biologist, and biophysicist — this resource shows how the science of energetics may be used in healing diseases that conventional medicine has difficulty treating. Easy-to-understand coverage simplifies the theory of energy medicine and the science behind it, providing detailed, coherent explanations for a complex subject. Well-established scientific research shows why and how energy medicine works. Multi-disciplinary approach covers energy medicine as it applies to various healthcare disciplines, from acupuncture to osteopathy to therapeutic touch and energy psychology.
Author: Mary Ann Sens Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323756182 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 630
Book Description
This expert volume in the Diagnostic Pathology series is an excellent point-of-care resource for practitioners at all levels of experience and training. Specifically designed to assist hospital pathologists and assistants, forensic pathology fellows, pathology residents, and medical examiners, it provides a comprehensive, authoritative discussion of key topics in forensic autopsy. Richly illustrated and easy to use, Diagnostic Pathology: Forensic Autopsy is a one-stop reference on the performance of procedures in this challenging field, ideal as a day-to-day reference or as a reliable training resource. - Provides expert guidance on accurate diagnoses of the findings and patterns encountered in the forensic autopsy, as well as cause of death procedures - Covers key topics such as opioid and drug deaths, including new drugs and their toxicology; deaths and investigations in custody; infant and child deaths, including SIDS and overlaying; and infant and child neck trauma, including shaken baby syndrome - Contains the necessary information to aid in the performance of both routine and complicated forensic autopsies - Features hundreds of high-quality images throughout, including full-color illustrations and clinical and gross pathology photographs—all carefully annotated to highlight the most diagnostically significant factors - Features a templated, highly formatted design; concise, bulleted text; key facts in each chapter; and an extensive index for easy reference - Offers authoritative, readable coverage for those who need to learn and understand important aspects of forensic autopsy, including coroners, medico-legal death investigators, and legal investigators - Includes the enhanced eBook version, which allows you to search all text, figures, and references on a variety of devices
Author: Jason Payne-James Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1000903826 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1984
Book Description
A comprehensive and accessible resource covering all aspects of forensic and legal medicine. The text provides a foundation for those working in both the clinical and forensic aspects of care and will also be an asset to those involved in the police or judicial systems. Including clear guidelines for practical applications, and further enhanced by its many illustrations and case examples, this text is a valuable resource in an increasingly complex field. The authoritative work is writtenn by those who have extensive experience for a wide audience including, but not limited to, forensic pathologists, general pathologists, pediatric pathologists, forensic physicians, forensic scientists, coroners, emergency department physicians, judges and legal practitioners.
Author: Peter Cameron Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0702076252 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1068
Book Description
Since the first edition of Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine was published twenty years ago, there has been enormous change in the way emergency care is delivered. This has occurred both in countries where emergency medicine was originally developed and in those where its application was limited because of cost. Emergency medicine is now perceived as the cornerstone of response to acute illness regardless of resources. This fully revised Fifth Edition provides clear and consistent coverage of this constantly evolving specialty. Building on the success of previous editions it covers all the major topics relevant to the practice of emergency medicine. The book will prove invaluable to professionals working in this setting – including nurse specialists and paramedics – who require concise, highly practical guidance, incorporating the latest best practice and evidence-based guidelines. This edition comes with an enhanced electronic version with video and self-assessment content, providing a richer learning experience and making rapid reference easier than ever before, anytime, anywhere. - A comprehensive textbook of adult emergency medicine for trainee doctors - covers all the problems likely to present to a trainee in the emergency department. - Chapters are highly readable and concise – boxes summarise chapter key points and highlight controversial areas of treatment. - The content is highly practical, clinically orientated and thoroughly updated in all the core subjects - There have been major updates in topics such as airway, shock and sepsis where guidelines have changed rapidly. - The imaging chapters have also evolved with changing practice and improved technology, to be concordant with evidence on the importance of image interpretation by emergency clinicians. - There are major sections on other skills and issues of key importance to today's advanced emergency medicine practitioner, such as staffing, overcrowding, triage, patient safety and quality measures. - In addition, difficult topics such as death and dying, the challenging patient, ethics, giving evidence and domestic violence are covered. Governance, training, research and organisational subjects such as disaster planning and response, humanitarian emergencies and refugee medicine are included to give the reader a framework to understand the complexity of managing major emergency systems of care.
Author: Dr. Rajaram .N, Anees KM, Anfal KP, Anusree G Nambiar, Devika Jayadevan, Mouhammed Thasleem KC Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1645876713 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 510
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This book is intended mainly for undergraduates in MBBS. The topics are arranged in alphabetical order for easy perusal with hyperlinks. It is written in very simple English and the subject matter is described very concisely and legibly so that it is understood easily by the student community. Around 496 photographs and other charts are included wherever necessary for co-relating theoretical aspects with real photographs. The presentation of this is far superior to other E-Books on the same subject. In the chapter concerning torture methods, hyperlinks are provided which will display the different instruments used for torture on YouTube. Editing, alignment and arranging photographs are mainly done by the co-authors and it is going to be a boon for the students.
Author: American College of Legal Medicine
Author: American College of Legal Medicine
Author: ACLM
Author: RAGHVENDRA BABU YP
Author: Krishan Vij
Author: Shankar M Bakkannavar
Author: James L. Oschman
Author: Mary Ann Sens
Author: Jason Payne-James
Author: Peter Cameron
Author: Dr. Rajaram .N, Anees KM, Anfal KP, Anusree G Nambiar, Devika Jayadevan, Mouhammed Thasleem KC