Laws of Medicine Core Legal Aspects for the Healthcare Professional
This book provides an overview of the US laws that affect clinical practice for healthcare professionals with no legal background. Divided into thirteen sections, each chapter starts with a summary of the chapter’s content and relevant legal concepts in bullet points before discussing the topics in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I : Introduction to US Legal System
- 1. U.S. Government
- 2. The Courts
- 3. Anatomy of a Lawsuit
- 4. Contract Law
- Part II : Public Health Law
- 5. Public Health Law
- Part III : Access to Care
- 6. Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)
- 7. Healthcare Reform
- Part IV : Tort Law
- 8. Malpractice
- 9. Liability in Reproduction and Birth
- 10. Product Liability
- Part V : Admin Law
- 11. Administrative Law - And Its Application in Health Law
- 12. Licensing Boards
- Part VI : Federal Regulations
- 13. Health Privacy, Security, and Information Management
- 14. Corporate Practice of Medicine
- 15. Transparency and the Federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act
- 16. Labor and Employment Issues for Clinicians
- Part VII : Fraud and Abuse
- 17. The False Claims Act
- 18. The Anti-Kickback Statute
- 19. The Stark Law
- 20. Office of Inspector General Administrative Authorities
- 21. Criminal Healthcare Fraud.-Part VIII : Antitrust
- 22. Antitrust Law
- Part IX : FDA Law
- 23. Drug and Medical Device Law
- 24. Tobacco Regulations
- 25. Artificial Intelligence: A Legal Landscape
- Part X : Intellectual Property Law
- 26. Patent Law
- 27. Copyright and Trademark Law
- Part XI : Mental Health Law
- 28. Psychiatric Hospitalization and Civil Commitment
- 29. Confidentiality and Privilege
- Part XII : Law and Bioethics
- 30. Informed Consent
- 31. Right to Decisional Privacy
- 32. Human Subjects Research
- 33. Next-Generation Genomic Sequencing and Clinician Liability
- 34. Decisions Near the End of Life
- Part XIII : Right to Healthcare
- 35. Is There a Right to Health in U.S.?
- 36. Healthcare is a Right