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Medical Negligence : Non-Patient and Third Party Claims.
Healthcare professionals face an increasing threat of litigation from parties whom they have never met in their daily medical practice and who look nothing like the traditional patient. This book explores the legal principles and conundrums which arise when determining a healthcare professional'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham :
Ashgate Pub.,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; List of Abbreviations; List of Tables; List of Figures; Notes on Mode of Citation and Style; PART I: Setting the Context; 1 The Book: An Overview; 2 Establishing Negligence in Novel Non-Patient Scenarios; PART II: Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Physical Injuries to Non-Patients; 3 Injuries to Non-Patients Caused by Physically-impaired or Mentally-ill Patients; 4 Contraction or Inheritance of Disease by Non-Patients from Patients; 5 'Bad Samaritan' Liability: Failing to Assist Non-Patients.
- Chapter 6 'Good Samaritan' Liability: Intervening to Assist Non-PatientsPART III Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Non-Physical Injuries to Non-Patients; 7 Pure Economic Loss Claims by Third Parties Associated with the Patient; 8 Pure Psychiatric Injury Claims by Third Parties Associated with the Patient; 9 'Fear-of-the-Future' Claims by Non-Patients; 10 Wrongfully-Accused Third Parties in Neglect or Abuse Cases; Appendix Potential.