Law, liability, and ethics for medical office professionals

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flight, Myrtle , 1935- (Author)
Format: Book
Published: Clifton Park, NY : Thomson/Delmar Learning , c2004
Edition:4th ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. From examing room to courtroom
  • 2. Functioning within the legal system
  • 3. Intent makes the difference
  • 4. Your words may form a contract
  • 5. Anatomy of a medical malpractice case
  • 6. Health care is big business
  • 7. The medical record: The Medical assistant's responsibility
  • 8. Introduction to ethics
  • 9. Privacy, confidentiality, privileged communication: A nexus of law and ethics
  • 10. Birth and the beginning of life
  • 11. Profesional ethics and the living
  • 12. Ethics: Death and dying