Adverse Events, Stress, and Litigation: A Physician's Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)Adverse Events, Stress and Litigation: A Physician's Guide was recommended to me by my daughter in pre-med. As an emergency physician with 30 years of experience in healthcare, I found this book a welcome addition to my continuing medical education. The authors provide an in depth synopsis of a topic which is fraught with anxiety for all physicians, medical malpractice. The book's unique strength lies in both content and format, setting it apart from other literature on the same topic. What it is NOT, is a sterile, didactic review on medical litigation. Rather, it walks the reader through the mine field of a claim or suit. It shines a light through the fog that is the legal process (and the associated attorney jargon) inherent in this stressful situation. Further, it provides the reader with tools to successfully navigate the system. Real life examples are integrated throughout, adding interest and even comfort. Every physician and physician-to-be should include this in their mandatory reading. I was surprised to find hope and solace in a book that is thoroughly informative and relevant. I highly recommend it.

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What is it like to be sued for medical malpractice? Bad medical outcomes traumatize patients but they also traumatize physicians. The litigation that often follows is a profoundly human, rather than just a legal experience.Although every physician's case is different, this book shows how each case goes through the same judicial stages of complaint, discovery, depositions, motions, and delays that lead to trial, settlement, or being dropped.It also gives doctors an understanding of how lawyers think and work to help defendants.Written by a physician and a lawyer, the book provides unique insights - through real-life stories - into the personal experience of litigation as well as recommendations for dealing with each of the legal process.It also includes up-to-date reviews of HIPAA legislation, the controversial subject of disclosure, and recent developments in the law affecting medical practitioners.Only about thirty percent of plaintiffs win their cases against doctors, but the journey from bedside to witness stand tests both the personal character and the professional skills of those accused.This well-documented book will help doctors understand and navigate the legal system while honoring their own ideals and emerging changed but stronger from the experience.

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The Malpractice Cure: How to Avoid the Legal Mistakes that Doctors Make Review

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(More customer reviews)Doctors need to pay more attention to how they conduct their practice to avoid malpractice suits, so THE MALPRACTICE CURE: HOW TO AVOID THE LEGAL MISTAKES THAT DOCTORS MAKE is a top pick for any library strong in physician training. It offers doctors a resource to save off lawsuits, explaining how to foil litigious patients and their lawyers using preventative care. From setting forth and following guidelines in hospital settings to being on alert for the 'incompetent patient', THE MALPRACTICE CURE is a top pick for both legal and medical collections.

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away—but what wards off lawyers? If you're a doctor, the answer is sound legal education. The trouble is that most physicians don't have it, and many of them get sued. The rate of malpractice lawsuits has recently skyrocketed, and the corresponding rise in malpractice insurance premiums is a burden many doctors cannot bear. According to some estimates, malpractice costs in the United States have increased by an average of 12% every year since 1975. Now, there's preventative medicine for doctors. In The Malpractice Cure, A physician can be sued because he didn't call a patient who skipped a follow-up. Some doctors end up in court because their notes differ slightly from a nurse's report. Doctors can be sued for forgetting to remind patients to return if their symptoms persist. It's the simplest errors that can land a doctor in court, and McCarthy explains the most common oversights. Unlike other books for doctors that concentrate solely on safe medical care, The Malpractice Cure explains the habits of doctors and their office policies that all but the most litigious patients ignore. And, if the worst happens, readers will find a special section on what to do when you get sued. Whether they work in hospitals or private offices, and no matter their medical specialty, doctors have much to learn from clients of Mr. McCarthy who should have known better.

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Why Marijuana Should Be Legal Review

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(More customer reviews)We really need to take this issue seriously and consider the benefits of legalizing! I'm not a smoker, but have friends and family who are. They are upstanding, conscious, hardworking citizens who don't deserve to have to sneak around. We could alleviate so much financial stife in the US if we would be more open minded about this issue. And of course, the by-products are amazing too. The author has his facts straight and writes in an easy communicative style. Buy one for the republican in your family.

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Contested Commodities Review

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(More customer reviews)Radin deals thoughtfully with some virgin territory in legal and social theory -- the question of what theoretical grounds might underlie the common intuition that some valued (indeed cherished) things should be treated by the law as (in whole or in part) "not for sale." Such items as children, body parts, sexual relations, votes, opinions, and the like are among the candidates for this status, and many things that are traded on markets have commerce in them restricted for reasons that relate neither to market efficiency nor fair distribution, but rather to the transformation in meaning (and ultimately value) that can occur when it something is treated as a commodity. Radin's discussion of these novel issues does not resolve them in any simple way, but better than anything else on the subject reveals how sticky they can be. T. Gre

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Not only are there willing buyers for body parts or babies, Radin observes, but some desperately poor people would be willing sellers, while better-off people find such trades abhorrent. Radin observes that many such areas of contested commodification reflect a persistent dilemma in liberal society: we value freedom of choice and simultaneously believe that choices ought to be restricted to protect the integrity of what it means to be a person. She views this tension as primarily the result of underlying social and economic inequality, which need not reflect an irreconcilable conflict in the premises of liberal democracy.

As a philosophical pragmatist, the author therefore argues for a conception of incomplete commodification, in which some contested things can be bought and sold, but only under carefully regulated circumstances. Such a regulatory regime both symbolizes the importance of nonmarket value to personhood and aspires to ameliorate the underlying conditions of inequality.

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Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits Review

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(More customer reviews)Get notified of updates at www.nolo.com/legalupdater. Check www.nolo.com/update to find recent changes in the law that affects the information in this book. Customer service support is available at 800-728-3555.
Here are some of the benefits covered in this book:
Veterans benefits - free or low cost medical care
Social Security - retirement & disability benefits
Supplemental Security Income
Federal Civil Service Retirement Benefits
How to navigate the bureaucracy
Reduce your health care costs
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Everyone wants to get the most out of their retirement benefits -- not to mention the best medical coverage and prescription drug benefits!Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions clearly explains what the different benefits are, and shows you how to claim what you've earned, including:*Social Security retirement and disability benefits*Social Security dependents and survivor benefits*Supplemental Security Income*federal, state and local government pensions*Medicare and Medicaid*Medigap managed care plans*veterans benefits*prescription drug coverageCompletely updated to provide the latest information and changes in benefits, this plain-English book is a must-have for anyone who is retired or about to be.

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Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case Review

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(More customer reviews)Marcia Angell's Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and The Law in the Breast Implant Case demonstrates what can happen when members of the bar -- and some highly paid experts -- have too much imagination. We have all read that the FDA banned silicone breast implants from the market and of the many large verdicts for women who had such implants. Angell looks at the science and policy beyond both these actions. As to the FDA's decision, she notes that the law requires the manufacturer of a medical device prove the device to be safe; the manufacturers, she concludes, had not taken this rule seriously, and suffered the consequences when the political winds changed direction at the FDA. As to the jury verdicts, she takes issue with the court adversary system itself, where each side hires experts (who often make a very good living at it) and lawyers with the stated objective of proving their side, not finding the "truth." She finds this particularly problematic in the breast implant context because no peer-reviewed epidemiological study finds any correlation between the implants and the conditions alleged. However, because juries are not scientists, and because courts are often ill-equipped to decide what is "good" science, "junk" science gets into evidence, and (to her) unsupportable verdicts occur. I find many of her points well taken, but I do not believe the system needs the extensive overhaul she recommends. What is needed (and what is happening in many courts) is closer control by judges in admitting expert proof to ensure that it has some valid, scientific basis. This is a thought-provoking and important book.

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