Contents:

Section I: Medical Ethics and Law

1. The Ethics of Medical Practice

2. Confidentiality and Disclosure in Medical Practice

3. Disclosing Medical Errors: Why, When and How?

4. End of Life Care Decisions: Ethical and Legal Issues

5. Medical Professionalism: Focus on Communication Skills

Section II: Documentation of Patient Care: The Legal Aspects

6. Medicolegal Aspects of Informed Consent

7. Medicolegal Aspects of Medical Records

Section III: Litigation against Medical Practitioners

8. Medical Negligence: Meaning, Scope and Legal Interpretation

9. How to Defend Medical Negligence Lawsuit?

10. Compensation in Medical Negligence: How much is justified?

11. Professional Indemnity Insurance: Better Safe than Sorry

Section IV: Medical Laws and Judgments Governing the Medical Professionals

12. Landmark Judgments Related to Medical Professionals

13. Medicolegal Outlook on Transplantation of Human Organs Act

14. Medicolegal Outlook on Biomedical Waste Management Act

15. Medicolegal Outlook on PC-PNDT Act

Section V: Medicolegal Issues in Various Specialties

16. Medicolegal Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology

17. Medicolegal Issues in Surgery

18. Medicolegal Issues in Orthopedics

19. Medicolegal Issues in Ophthalmology

20. Medicolegal Issues in Pediatrics

21. Medicolegal Issues in Radiology

22. Medicolegal Issues in Blood Transfusion Practice

23. Medicolegal Issues in Dentistry

24. Medicolegal Issues in Anesthesiology