Adults who refuse blood -- Discussing the prospects of cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- What should be disclosed when seeking consent -- Deprivation in Essex -- The first glimpse of a duty to warn? -- Can a patient choose her surgeon? -- Sentiments -- Unwise decisions -- Consulting relatives -- Doctrine of double effect -- Needle phobia -- Candid over complications -- Examining patients with their consent -- Covert treatment -- Can blood be compulsorily administered under the Mental Health Act 1983? -- Genetic confidentiality -- Refusing hospital discharge -- Consent for a cannula -- Changing direction in severe anorexia -- Be informed : then disclose -- Withdrawing treatment in a young man -- The value of going to court -- Articulating best interests -- Loyal Friends -- Apply to court? -- Disclosing the miniscule risk when seeking consent -- Obtaining consent -- Deprivation of Liberty : the story so far -- Falling from hospital property -- Gross negligence manslaughter : perhaps better, "betrayal of trust"? -- Interpretation -- A narrow dispute -- A right to be told? -- "But all life is an experiment" -- Avoid discouraging patients from waiting to be treated -- Mixed messages -- It is for clinicians to identify foreseeable risks -- Separating twins -- Body modification -- Seeking the approval of a court for paternity testing -- Children refusing treatment -- Can we rely on our Advance Decisions? -- Is there a role for "next of kin"? -- Preaching to patients -- Information classification : general -- Deceiving patients -- Determining incapacity -- Reasons for refusing blood? -- Justifying the termination of a pregnancy -- The feasibility of a covert Caesarean section -- Communicating risk : words or numbers? -- Stark compulsion in grave circumstances -- Going to court too soon -- Best interests in the absence of suffering -- Patients value candour -- Informed consent & informed dissent : two sides of a coin? -- Parental consent for their child's deprivation of liberty -- Vulnerable with capacity -- Compulsory treatment for diabetes -- Approving palliation -- Acquiescence : not consent -- Making clinical legal decisions.
Summary:
"Clinicians must practice medicine in conformity with regulatory requirements. That is the daily challenge, and those requirements are founded on medical law. This book describes how clinical law has been applied in numerous cases, thus providing a clinical appraisal of the law which is directly applicable to clinical practice in the United Kingdom"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.