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Law, liability, and ethics for medical office professionals /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flight, Myrtle, 1935-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Australia ; Clifton Park, NY : Thomson Delmar Learning, [2004]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Allied Health Personnel > United States > legislation.
Ethics, Medical.
Malpractice > United States > legislation.
Practice Management, Medical > United States > legislation.
Jurisprudence > United States.
Medical Records > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • From examining room to courtroom
  • Functioning within the legal system
  • Intent makes the difference
  • Your words may form a contract
  • Anatomy of a medical malpractice
  • Health care is big business
  • The medical record : the medical assistant's responsibility
  • Introduction to ethics
  • Privacy, confidentiality, privileged communications : a nexus of law and ethics
  • Birth and the beginning of life
  • Professional ethics and the living
  • Ethics : death and dying
  • Appendix A : The civil and criminal cases for discussion
  • Appendix B : Answers to cases for discussion