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Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics for the Health Professions » (6th Edition)

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Authors: Carol Tamparo, Marcia (marti) Lewis, Carol D. Tamparo
ISBN-13: 9780803617308, ISBN-10: 0803617305
Format: Paperback
Publisher: F. A. Davis Company
Date Published: May 2007
Edition: 6th Edition

Author Biography: Carol Tamparo

Carol D. Tamparo, PhD, CMA-A, Dean, Business and Allied Health Division, Lake Washington Technical College, Kirkland, Washington
Marcia A. Lewis, EdD, RN, CMA-AC, Associate Dean, Mathematics, Science, and Health Occupations; Instructor, Medical Assisting, Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington

Book Synopsis

Now in its sixth edition, Medical Law, Ethics and Bioethics for Health Professions continues to champion the "Have a Care" cause while providing readers with a strong ethical and legal foundation to better serve their clients. Any direct client contact involves ethical and legal responsibility and a certain level of ambulatory health care knowledge. This book provides that and provides a solid groundwork for ambulatory care as it pertains to legal concepts and laws, ethical issues, and bioethics faced in today's medical practices - by today's health care professionals.

Booknews

Illustrates medical ethics concepts and controversies with brief cases and scenarios, and provides learning features such as definitions, chapter objectives, vignettes, discussion questions, and case law examples. Subjects covered include professional liability, consent, genetic engineering, abortion, and death and dying. For ambulatory health care workers. This fourth edition, revised from the 1993 edition of , includes material on managed care, health care reform, and cultural perspectives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Have a Care	1
1	Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics	6
	Law	7
	Ethics	7
	Bioethics	7
	Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine	8
	Comparing Law, Ethics, and Bioethics	9
	The Importance of Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics	9
	Codes of Ethics	11
	An Ethics Check	12
	Characteristics of a Professional Ambulatory Health Care Employee	13
2	Medical Practice Management	16
	Sale Proprietors	18
	Partnerships	20
	Professional Service Corporations	21
	Group Practices	23
	Managed Care	25
	Health Maintenance Organizations	27
	Other Business Arrangements	29
	A Word of Caution	31
	General Liability	31
	Employers' Responsibilities to Employees	33
3	The Employees in Ambulatory Health Care	35
	Licensed Personnel (Nurses)	37
	Nonlicensed Personnel	39
	Other Employees	41
	Considerations for Ambulatory Health Care Employees	42
4	Legal Guidelines for Ambulatory Health Care	44
	Sources of Law	46
	Types of Law	47
	Controlled Substances Act and Regulations	52
	Drug Schedules	53
	Issuing Prescriptions	55
	Types of Court	55
	Subpoenas	59
	The Trail Process	60
	Expert Witness	62
5	Regulations and Professional Liability for the Health Care Professional	64
	Medical Practice Acts	65
	Professional Liability	67
	Standard of Care	67
	Confidentiality	68
	Physician Liability for Client Injury	69
	Contracts	69
	Torts	73
	Doctrine of Respondent Superior	77
	Statue of Limitations	78
	Professional Liability or Malpractice Insurance	80
	Alternatives to Litigation	81
	Malpractice Prevention	81
6	Public Duties	84
	Birth and Deaths	86
	Communicable and Notifiable Diseases	92
	Victims of Abuse	94
	Elder Abuse	95
	Child Abuse	95
	Evidence	97
	Drug Abuse	98
	Good Samaritan Laws	99
7	Consent	102
	Informed and Uninformed Consent	104
	The Doctrine of Informed Consent	104
	Problems in Consent	105
	Implementing Consent	108
8	Medical Records	113
	Purposes	114
	Problem-Oriented Medical Records	114
	SOAP	115
	Use of Records in Litigation	117
	Computerized Medical Records	120
	E-mail	121
	Fax Machines	122
	Ownership of Medical Records	123
	Retention of Medical Records	124
9	Reimbursement and Collection Practices	126
	Truth in Lending Act	127
	Collection Guidelines	128
	Collection Do's	129
	Collection Don'ts	131
	Collection Problems	131
	Collection Agencies	132
	Reimbursement Attitudes	133
10	Employment Practices	135
	Personnel Policies	136
	Job Descriptions	136
	Office Hours and Work Week	137
	Benefits and Salaries	137
	The Employment Process	137
	Legal Implications	144
11	A Cultural Perspective for Ambulatory Health Care	150
	Components of Cultural Diversity	151
	Establishing a New Culture in Ambulatory Health Care	154
12	Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources	157
	Macroallocation and Microallocation	159
	The Influence of Politics, Economics, and Ethics on Health Care	160
	Systems for Decision Making	161
	How Would You Decide?	162
13	Genetic Engineering	165
	Genetic, Screening, Testing, and Counseling	167
	Sterilization	170
	Human Genome Project and Gene Therapy	171
	Assisted Reproduction	172
	Artificial Insemination	173
	Legal and Ethical Implications of AIH and AID	173
	In Vitro Fertilization and Other Forms of Assisted Reproduction	175
	Surrogacy	176
	Legal and Ethical Implications of Assisted Reproduction	176
	Cord Blood and Stem Cell Research	178
	Tissue and Organ Engineering	179
	Reproductive Cloning	179
	Considerations for Ambulatory Care Employees	180
14	Abortion	181
	Fetal Development	182
	When Does Life Begin?	182
	Methods of Abortion	184
	Legal Implications	186
	Ethical Implications	190
	Ambulatory Health Care Protocol	192
15	Life and Death	195
	Choices in Life and Death	196
	Choices in Dying	199
	Living Wills, Advance Directives, and the Patient Self-Determination Act	200
	Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care	202
	Legal Definitions of Death	204
	Legal Implications	206
	Ethical Considerations	207
	The Role of Health Professionals in Ambulatory Care	209
16	Dying and Death	212
	Suffering in Dying	213
	Use of Medications	214
	Psychologic Aspects of Dying	215
	Physiologic Aspects of Dying	215
	Stages of Grief	217
	Hospice	219
	Assisted Suicide	220
	Uniform Anatomical Gift Act	222
	Autopsy	223
	The Role of the Physician and Ambulatory Health Care Professionals	224
App. I	Code of Ethics	227
App. II	Sample Documents for Choices about Health Care, Life, and Death	239
	Bibliography	246
	Index	253

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