Description

A clinician, attorney, educator, and medico-legal consultant, Fiscina analyzes the interac­tion between law and medicine by presenting legal issues and principles derived from clini­cal situations familiar to attending physi­cians, medical students, and others involved in health care.

The case studies will permit physicians to observe and assess whether or not their pro­fessional conduct is legally acceptable. The cases allow Fiscina to explore the legal im­plications of the physician’s conduct under varying clinical circumstances. Each chapter traces specifically the way the law measures performance of clinical tasks. Because medi­cal practice necessarily involves many in­stances of choice and decision, knowing the legal points of comparison generally ap­plied will permit more rational and assured choices when questions arise. Some of the case studies contain facts and circumstances that should alert a physician to the presence of questionable circumstances and propose the reasonable (in the legal sense) course of action.

About the Author

Salvatore Francis Fiscina, M.D., J.D., is Deputy Chairman, Department of Legal Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pa­thology, and Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University National Law Center.