Includes bibliographical references (p. 157) and index.
Contents:
From absolute immunity to multi-dimensional liability : how did we get here? -- Hospital culture : what defines it? -- Hospital regulatory law : who's the boss? -- Hospital governance : where does the buck stop? -- Hospital management : who's who and what do they do? -- The organized medical staff : how organized is it? -- Medical staff bylaws : are they law? -- Physician v. hospital : does the hospital always win? -- Collaborative hospital leadership : is it? -- Policies, procedures, protocols, rules, and regulations : do they practice what they preach? -- Hospitals don't practice medicine : do they? -- Hospital communications : will their words come back to haunt them? -- Selected cases : might they apply to hospitals? -- Assessing liability, risk, vulnerability and responsibility in litigation and defense : guilty as charged? -- Resources : what should be in your libraries, real and virtual?.
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