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Books : Nonfiction : Law : Family & Health Law : Medical Law & Legislation
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Completely revised text has been updated with new case illustrations, and reflects the nature of law and the healthcare industry. Features: case law within each chapter, case scenarios, chapter review, new chapter on zero tolerance, and a revised chapter on healthcare ethics. Author also wrote the Brandon/Hill title, Case Law in Health Care Administration, 2nd ed, c1999.
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This is a standard in quality evaluations, and is the approved uniform way to evaluate, measure and report impairment. The material in the fifth edition is scientifically and consensus based, and is prepared by society experts. All body systems are covered with significant improvements in major chapters including cardiology, respiratory, muscular-skeletal, and skin. Also covers new conditions including HIV and latex allergy. Mandated or recommended in over 40 states of the US, and in Canada and Australia.
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The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told, and so it is. Barely one in five Americans thinks the medical system works well.
Enter David M. Cutler, a Harvard economist who served on President Clinton's health care task force and later advised presidential candidate Bill Bradley. One of the nation's leading experts on the subject, Cutler argues in Your Money or Your Life that health care has in fact improved exponentially over the last fifty years, and that the successes of our system suggest ways in which we might improve care, make the system easier to deal with, and extend coverage to all Americans. Cutler applies an economic analysis to show that our spending on medicine is well worth it--and that we could do even better by spending more. Further, millions of people with easily manageable diseases, from hypertension to depression to diabetes, receive either too much or too little care because of inefficiencies in the way we reimburse care, resulting in poor health and in some cases premature death.
The key to improving the system, Cutler argues, is to change the way we organize health care. Everyone must be insured for the medical system to perform well, and payments should be based on the quality of services provided not just on the amount of cutting and poking performed.
Lively and compelling, Your Money or Your Life offers a realistic yet rigorous economic approach to reforming health care--one that promises to break through the stalemate of failed reform.
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Designed to meet the needs of both novice and advanced practitioners, the first edition of Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice established standards and defined the core curriculum of legal nurse consulting. It also guided the development of the certification examination administered by the American Legal Nurse Consultant Certification Board. The extensive revisions and additions in Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, Second Edition make this bestselling reference even more indispensable. The most significant change is the inclusion of 15 new chapters, each of which highlights an important aspect of legal nurse consulting practice: Entry into the Specialty Certification Nursing Theory: Applications to Legal Nurse Consulting Elements of Triage for Medical Malpractice Evaluating Nursing Home Cases Principles of Evaluating Personal Injury Cases Common Mechanisms of Injury in Personal Injury Cases ERISA and HMO Litigation The LNC as Case Manager Report Preparation Locating and Working with Expert Witnesses The Role of the LNC in Preparation of Technical Demonstrative Evidence Marketing Growing a Business Business Ethics Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, Second Edition presents up-to-date, practical information on consulting in a variety of practice environments and legal areas. Whether you are an in-house LNC or you work independently, this book is your definitive guide to legal nurse consulting.
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The fourth edition of this popular textbook provides the basic information needed to learn critical concepts of managed care. Derived from the best-selling Managed Health Care Handbook, Fourth Edition, this text presents basic information on all the critical concepts of managed care; compares myths about managed care to actual facts; progresses from introductory material on the types of managed care organizations to negotiating and contracting, controlling utilization, and using data reports in medical management; illuminates the regulatory landscape, with careful attention to both federal and state law, as well as the legislative environment. Learning objectives open each chapter; useful tables and charts summarize key information at a glance; study questions encourage thoughtful analysis; includes a glossary of terms and common acronyms. Also includes Study Guide.
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Whether at the federal, state, or local level, governments formulate, implement, and constantly modify their health policies within an intricately choreographed policymaking process. With clear explanations and examples, this book illuminates the policymaking process and provides insight into the future of U.S. health policy. New features of the second edition include thorough updating, along with: * A new chapter on policy outcomes * Case studies to illustrate key concepts * Discussion questions at the end of each chapter * References to informative Web sites * An appendix of annotated U.S. federal laws pertaining to health
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Marijuana is the world's most popular illicit drug, with hundreds of millions of regular users worldwide. One in three Americans has smoked pot at least once. The Drug Enforcement Agency estimates that Americans smoke five million pounds of marijuana each year. And yet marijuana remains largely misunderstood by both its advocates and its detractors.
To some, marijuana is an insidious "stepping-stone" drug, enticing the inexperienced and paving the way to the inevitable abuse of harder drugs. To others, medical marijuana is an organic means of easing the discomfort or stimulating the appetite of the gravely ill. Others still view marijuana, like alcohol, as a largely harmless indulgence, dangerous only when used immoderately. All sides of the debate have appropriated the scientific evidence on marijuana to satisfy their claims. What then are we to make of these conflicting portrayals of a drug with historical origins dating back to 8,000 B.C.?
Understanding Marijuana examines the biological, psychological, and societal impact of this controversial substance. What are the effects, for mind and body, of long-term use? Are smokers of marijuana more likely than non-users to abuse cocaine and heroine? What effect has the increasing potency of marijuana in recent years had on users and on use? Does our current legal policy toward marijuana make sense? Earleywine separates science from opinion to show how marijuana defies easy dichotomies. Tracing the medical and political debates surrounding marijuana in a balanced, objective fashion, this book will be the definitive primer on our most controversial and widely used illicit substance.
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"Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Few lines from Supreme Court opinions are as memorable as this declaration by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the landmark 1927 case Buck v. Bell. The ruling allowed states to forcibly sterilize residents in order to prevent "feebleminded and socially inadequate" people from having children. It is the only time the Supreme Court endorsed surgery as a tool of government policy. Paul Lombardo's startling narrative exposes the Buck case's fraudulent roots.
In 1924 Carrie Buck -- involuntarily institutionalized by the State of Virginia after she was raped and impregnated -- challenged the state's plan to sterilize her. Having already judged her mother and daughter mentally deficient, Virginia wanted to make Buck the first person sterilized under a new law designed to prevent hereditarily "defective" people from reproducing. Lombardo's more than twenty-five years of research and his own interview with Buck before she died demonstrate conclusively that she was destined to lose the case before it had even begun. Neither Carrie Buck nor her mother and daughter were the "imbeciles" condemned in the Holmes opinion. Her lawyer -- a founder of the institution where she was held -- never challenged Virginia's arguments and called no witnesses on Buck's behalf. And judges who heard her case, from state courts up to the U.S. Supreme Court, sympathized with the eugenics movement. Virginia had Carrie Buck sterilized shortly after the 1927 decision.
Though Buck set the stage for more than sixty thousand involuntary sterilizations in the United States and was cited at the Nuremberg trials in defense of Nazi sterilization experiments, it has never been overturned. Three Generations, No Imbeciles tracks the notorious case through its history, revealing that it remains a potent symbol of government control of reproduction and a troubling precedent for the human genome era.
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This newest edition of the late Arthur Southwick's bestselling health law text book captures the scope and intricacies of health law from the perspective of management. This focus is key, considering the range of complex legal issues healthcare managers face on any given day. Showalter covers the basic structure of the court system and legal procedure, but also delves into specific healthcare law issues, including the organization and management of a corporate healthcare institution, liability of the healthcare institution, and taxation of healthcare institutions.
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Nurse Practitioner s Business Practice and Legal Guide, Third Edition lays a solid foundation of knowledge upon which practitioners and students can build their practice confidently and effectively, whether it be in developing an employment relationship, undertaking a business venture, giving testimony before the state legislature, composing a letter to an insurance company about an unpaid bill, teaching at a school of nursing, or serving as president of a state or national organization.
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The time has come for a frank discussion about how we die. UNPLUGGED is the blueprint for that talk.
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Mental health and human service professionals are often called on to give evidence or expert testimony in a range of circumstances, including family law and child welfare trials, mental health hearings, malpractice lawsuits, criminal trials, government hearings, and private arbitration. Interacting with the legal system poses many potential challenges, but adequate preparation and a basic understanding of legal processes and terminology can make the experience a more positive one. This volume provides practical information and proven guidelines to help clinicians from any background understand their role in legal proceedings-and participate effectively, ethically, and with minimal stress. Special features include helpful checklists and samples of affidavits, retainer agreements, and other materials that can be adapted for use in the reader's own practice.
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Univ. of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. Second author, David B. Brushwood, is with Univ. of Florida, Gainesville. Textbook, for pharmacy students, features key case studies, updated material covering new regulations and changes in practice, and revised content to correspond with recent directives launched by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Prev. ed: c1997. Softcover.
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Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks. Features new chapters on ambulatory care nursing and nursing in managed care settings, coverage of multistate licensure, alternative therapies, right-to-die issues, and more. Previous edition: c1997. For students and practitioners. Softcover. DNLM: Legislation, Nursing--U.S.--Nurses' Instruct
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This overview of medical law and ethics is written in straightforward language for non-lawyer healthcare professionals who must be able to cope with multiple legal and ethical issues they encounter while working in a variety of settings--e.g., the medical office, hospitals, clinics, and skilled nursing facilities. It is designed to help them better understand their ethical obligation to themselves, their patients, and their employer. New to this edition are: Changes in Contract Law; Hiring Practices such as personnel policy manual, interview process, legal implications, sexual harassment, discrimination issues relating to selecting employees, incompetent and dishonest colleagues; Expanded coverage of Privacy Law and confidentiality - to cover more on confidentiality, HIPAA and other laws affecting the disclosure of personal information; Expanded coverage of Consent - to include more about informed and uninformed consent, problems when implementing consent, the right to refuse treatment. Also discussed are: Physician's Orders: what to do when the health care worker disagrees with the orders, what orders can be carried out with or without a written physician's orders; Malpractice Avoidance; and Truth-telling as in cases of patients who do not want to be told their diagnosis or families who do not wish to have the patient told. New to the End of Chapter activities include: Expanded “Web Hunt” exercises; Chapter Review fill-in-the-blank exercises to each chapter; and More Case Studies. For those in the allied health field in a variety of settings such as the medical office, hospitals, clinics, and skilled nursing facilities.
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Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes that Kill and Injure Millions of Americans
A call to arms for families who have had loved ones disabled or dying in the pursuit of medical treatment...Well written and researched ...highlights this timely topic in a unique way that will evoke the reader's own experience. --Former First Lady Rosalyn Carter
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This is a superior teaching text for a required curriculum component in radiography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and radiation therapy educational programs. It offers a student-friendly, balanced examination of legal and ethical issues. This text also serves as an excellent reference for radiology departments. Features objectives, questions, activities, case studies, and practice scenarios to encourage critical thinking and problem solving.
* Provides balanced coverage of legal and ethical issues. * Case scenarios and discussion questions encourage students to apply content and develop critical thinking and problem solving abilities. * Case studies of actual situations provide students with concrete examples of relevant case law to familiarize them with potentially problematic situations they may encounter in clinical practice. * Autobiographical sketches provided by practicing professionals help students appreciate the impact of medical ethics and law on clinical practice. * Extensive pedagogy includes objectives, case studies, review questions, and discussion questions.
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Legal Nurse Consultants have the health/medical knowledge to provide valuable insight into medical issues of legal cases; however, most nurses don't have a clue about how to market those services. This book offers answers to their marketing problems. They will learn how to: Target attorneys that need their services; classify prospects and assess their needs; develop outstanding brochures and cover letters; use networks and networking to their advantage; be a solution to attorneys' problems; and do all this on a minimal marketing budget.
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Professional Guide to Pathophysiology combines the best elements of a diseases reference with the best elements of a full-color atlas in one clinical reference for every practice setting. This comprehensive guide focuses on the pathophysiologic developments behind more than 450 disorders arranged by body system, as well as including chapters on cancer, infection, and genetic and immune disorders. The goal of this reference is to ensure that the practitioner fully understands the pathophysiologic rationale behind focused assessments, patient signs and symptoms, the kinds of tests that are done, and the treatments that are given. Each disorder listing includes: description, incidence, and prognosis; causes; pathophysiologic process; signs and symptoms; complications; diagnostic tests; and treatments. Two 16-page inserts of four color illustrations from the expert medical illustrators at Anatomical Chart Company depict the pathophysiologic processes of major diseases. Also included are hundreds of illustrations, checklists, tables, and flowcharts that quickly clarify anatomic and physiologic concepts, diagnostic techniques, differential signs and symptoms, disease classifications, and treatment goals.
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Written for health care professionals to prepare themselves for a deposition or trial testimony in a medical malpractice lawsuit. Focuses on listening, answering questions effectively, and avoiding common legal traps. Also covers related topics such as who is at high risk for lawsuits, the emotional toll, and coping strategies.