1

Introduction: Legal Medicine   S. Sandy Sanbar

1

PART I

MEDICAL LICENSURE, CREDENTIALING AND PRIVILEGING, PROFILING, AND IMPAIRMENT

2

Medical Practice: Education and Licensure   S. Sandy Sanbar

7

3

Medical Staff Peer Review in the Credentialing and Privileging of Physicians   Marvin H. Firestone

17

4

Physician Profile Databases   Mark J. Greenwood, and Michael Kaminski

23

5

Health Care Professional Impairment   Louis E. Baxter, Sr., and Mark F. Seltzer

3

PART II

BUSINESS ASPECTS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE

6

Health Care Provider Contracts   Stephanie Rifkinson-Mann

35

7

Agency   Marvin H. Firestone

43

8

Antitrust   David P. Cluchey, and Edward David

49

9

Complementary and Alternative Medicine   Joseph A. Barrette

67

10

Practice Organizations and Joint Ventures   Mark E. Rust, and Ellen L. Luepke

75

11

Coproviders and Institutional Practice   Edward E. Hollowell, and Jennifer L. Smith

89

12

Physician as an Employer   Charles G. Hess

115

13

Health Professionals and the Regulated Industry: The Laws and Regulations Enforced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration   Freddie Ann Hoffman, and Peter H. Rheinstein

123

14

Health Insurance and Professional Liability Insurance   James R. Hubler, and Jay Weaver

143

15

Patents, Intellectual Property, and Licenses   Aaron Seth Kesselheim

151

16

Federal Health Information Privacy Requirements   Karen S. Rieger

159

PART III

MEDICOLEGAL AND ETHICAL ENCOUNTERS

17

Ethics and Bioethics   John R. Carlisle

165

18

Research and Experimentation   Cyril H. Wecht

175

19

The Human Genome Project   Stephanie L. Anderson

193

20

Legal Interests of the Fetal Patient   Jeffrey L. Lenow

201

21

Organ Donation and Transplantation   S. Sandy Sanbar

209

22

Life Care Planning: Ethical and Legal Issues   Ellen Barker

227

23

The Process of Dying   Ben A. Rich

237

24

Physician-Assisted Suicide and Palliative Sedation   Stuart G. Selkin, and S. Sandy Sanbar

245

PART IV

PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL LIABILITY

25

Medical Malpractice Overview   S. Sandy Sanbar, and James Warner

253

26

Patient Safety and Health Care Quality   Mark J. Greenwood, and Barbara A. Garren

265

27

Medication Errors   David M. Benjamin, and James T. O’Donnell

271

28

Disclosure of Adverse Outcome and Apologizing to the Injured Patient   Alvin I. Block

279

29

Risk Management   Richard R. Balsamo, and Max Douglas Brown

285

30

Alternative Dispute Resolution   S. Sandy Sanbar

305

31

Physician-Patient Relationship   Matthew L. Howard

315

32

Competency and Capacity: A Primer   Steven B. Bisbing

325

33

Informed Consent to Medical and Surgical Treatment   Christopher White, Arnold J. Rosoff, and Theodore R. LeBlang

337

34

Medical Records: Paper and Electronic   S. Sandy Sanbar

347

35

Medical Testimony and the Expert Witness   Joseph D. Piorkowski, Jr.

357

36

Liability of Health Care Entities for Negligent Care   Sal Piscina

373

37

Liability of Managed Care Organizations   Miles J. Zaremski, and Craig M. Mandell

385

38

Pharmacist Malpractice and Liability   James T. O’Donnell, and David M. Benjamin

391

39

Medical Product Liability   Michael S. Lehv

397

40

Telemedicine and Electronic Mail Communication with Patients   Raymund C. King

407

41

Professional Liability in Emergency Medicine   Howard A. Peth, Jr.

421

42

Legal Issues in Newborn Intensive Care   Robert Turbow, and Jonathan Fanaroff

427

43

Liability in Obstetrics and Gynecology   Victoria L. Green

441

44

Liability of Ophthalmologists   Philip A. Shelton

449

45

Liability of Otolaryngologists   Raymund C. King

457

46

Liability of Radiologists   Michael M. Raskin

467

47

Liability of Neurologists   James C. Johnston

473

48

Liability of Plastic Surgeons   Michael S. Lehv

481

49

Nursing and the Law   Judith A. Gic

491

50

Dental Litigation: Triad of Concerns   Bruce H. Seidberg

499

51

Criminalization of Medical Negligence   James A. Filkins

507

52

Crimes by Health Care Providers   Stan Twardy

513

53

Countersuits by Health Care Providers   Bradford H. Lee

521

54

No-Fault Medical Malpractice System in New Zealand   Mark Bismark

527

PART V

CARE OF SPECIAL PATIENTS

55

Children as Patients   Joseph P. McMenamin

537

56

Child Abuse   Joseph P. McMenamin

539

57

Domestic Violence Patients   Jack W. Snyder

551

58

Geriatric Patients   Marshall B. Kapp

559

59

Oncology Patients   Melvin A. Shiftman

565

60

Brain-Injured Patients   Clark Watts, and T. Walter Harrell

575

61

Patients with HIV Infection and AIDS   Mike A. Royal, and Michael A. Shifiet

583

62

The Law and the Relief of Pain: Pain Management   L. Jean Dunegan

591

63

Sports Medicine   Richard S. Goodman

599

PART VI

FORENSIC SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

64

Forensic Pathology   Cyril H. Wecht

601

65

Forensic Engineering   Steven C. Batterman, and Scott D. Batterman

609

66

Forensic Toxicology   Frederick W. Fochtman

617

67

Psychiatric Patients and Forensic Psychiatry   Marvin H. Firestone

621

68

Criminalistics   Henry C. Lee, and Elaine M. Pagliaro

635

69

Forensic Entomology   Neal H. Haskell

645

70

Forensic Odontology   Michael N. Sobel

655

71

Utilization of Forensic Science in the Civil and Criminal Justice Systems: Forensic Use of Medical Information   Cyril H. Wecht

661

PART VII

LEGAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

72

Occupational Health Law   Carolyn S. hanger

667

73

Public Health Law   Jay A. Gold, and Edward P. Richards II

675

74

Legal Aspects of Bioterrorism   George J. Annas

679

PART VIII

INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

75

Physician Licensing and Disciplining in England and Europe   Kevin J. Dalton

689

76

Privacy

699

77

Drivers and the Law   Roy G. Beran, and J.A. Devereux

705

Glossary

Selected Health Care and Legal Terminology

711

Case Index

721

Subject Index

725