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The Australian Medico-Legal Handbook with PDA Software

  • 1st Edition - November 12, 2007
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Cameron Stewart, Ian Kerridge, Malcolm Parker
  • Language: English

The Australian Medico-Legal Handbook will be provided with PDA software and aims to give JMOs immediate, clear and concise answers to the most frequently asked legal questions… Read more

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The Australian Medico-Legal Handbook will be provided with PDA software and aims to give JMOs immediate, clear and concise answers to the most frequently asked legal questions arising during hospital training. Doctors carry very little when they are in the ward but are increasingly carrying PDAs, making the accompanying software an ideal content delivery method.

Key features

  • The handbook and accompanying PDA software is the only one of its kind offered to Australian JMOs.
  • Content development is based around the authors' research through ongoing focus groups into the most commonly asked questions by the end user, that is, JMOs in the hospital training environment.
  • Law updates and other relevant materials (including guidelines and links to relevant Health Department documents) will be provided on the accompanying Evolve site.
  • Written by a proven author team, each an expert in the medico-legal and/or ethical fields.
  • Clinical problems will be outlined with cross-referencing to the appropriate sections of the handbook. These questions will be posed in the style and format used by clinicians, for example: ‘What if I get sued?' ‘What do I do if someone refuses treatment?' ‘What deaths do I refer to the Coroner?' ‘What if I make a mistake?' ‘Who makes decisions about a child's treatment?'

Table of contents

1. How to Use this Handbook

2. Clinical Questions

3. The Legal System, Courts and Procedure

4. Standards of Care

5. Professional Conduct

6. Consent

7. Confidentiality and Privacy

8. Incompetent Patients

9. Children

10. Death and Dying

11. Human Tissue and Organ Donation

12. Mental Health

13. Drugs and Prescribing

14. The Police

15. Medical Records

16. Certificates

17. Employment and other Arrangements for Services

Glossary

Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 12, 2007
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Cameron Stewart

Cameron Stewart BEc LLB, PhD, is a member of Sydney Health Law and an associate of the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Professor of Health, Law and Ethics at the University of Sydney Law School. He was acting Dean of Law in Sydney Law School, acting president of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law and Ethics in 2008-2010 and was the Vice-President of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law from 2010-2013.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Law, Macquarie University Honorary Associate Professor of Law, Centre for Values in Ethics, Medicine and the Law, University of Sydney, Legal Practitioner, NSW Supreme Court Barrister and Solicitor, High Court of Australia

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Ian Kerridge

Affiliations and expertise
Director, Centre for Values and Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney; Staff Haematologist/Bone Marrow Transplant Physician, Westmead Hospital, Australia

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Malcolm Parker

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Medical Ethics, School of Medicine, University of Queensland; Board member of the Australasian Bioethics Association and the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law & Ethics; Member of Queensland Health Ethics Advisory Committee