Reasonable Care: Legal Perspectives on the Doctor-Patient Relationship

ISBN-13: 9780198255789 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 304 str.

Harvey Teff

Opis

Though more and more medical disputes are reaching the courts, English law still essentially allows doctors to set their own standards. Too often, the belief is that "doctor knows best." This book offers a sustained treatment of this issue, primarily as it arises in the hospital setting, but looking too at a range of therapies in different contexts. It argues for patient involvement in medical decision-making about their treatment, and critically examines approaches based on the assertion of patients' legal rights. As such, it provides a valuable analysis of the central areas of medical law written in a fashion that will appeal to anyone with an interest in medicine, health care, and the law.

Recenzje

Medical practitioners concerned or downright worried about medical negligence would do well to consult Harvey Teff's Reasonable Care: Legal Perspectives on the Doctor/Patient Relationship. It offers important reading for legal scholars and for busy medical practitioners who ought to be aware of such landmark cases as Bolam, Alcock, Gold, Maynard, and Rogers Whitaker as well as of the (changing) attitude of the courts today ... extraordinarily well-written and well-researched ... he has a splendid grasp of this fast-changing, uncertain medicolegal epoch - historically, politically, sociologically, and philosophically ... His arguments are persuasive, reasonable, and caring ... Thanks to Teff's book, medical practitioners will have a healthy way of thinking about their profession and the law itself - maybe even about lawyers too.

O autorze

Harvey Teff is a Doctor of the Middle Temple and a barrister.