As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of legalities on medical treatment. Physicians today are apprehensive about the threat of malpractice suits. Kapp explores the extent to which this fear is justified. He examines where physicians get their ideas about what the law forbids and requires, how physicians' perceptions of the law and medicine affect medical care, and whether these behavioral manifestations benefit or hurt a physician's ability to practice ethically. Kapp then suggests ways medical professionals can resolve tension caused by conflicting demands and encourage more ethical care.
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"Marshall Kapp's [book] is an important and eloquent description of how our legal system has distorted judgements and values in the medical profession. Our Hands Are Tied is a unique contribution to a vitally important problem."-Philip K. Howard Author, The Death of Common Sense
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An in-depth investigation of the influence that apprehension about litigation and legal liability exerts on ethical medical practice today.
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clinical practice parameters, legal defensiveness, most risk managers, liability anxiety, legal anxieties, many risk managers, risk management advice, legal apprehensions, defensive medicine, physician anxiety, malpractice system, legal fears, physician behavior, medical malpractice litigation, physician compliance, physician perceptions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, American Medical News, Archives of Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Hastings Center Report, Wall Street Journal, General Accounting Office, Journal of Law, Office of Technology Assessment, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Associated Press, Government Printing Office, Critical Care Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians, Code of Federal Regulations, San Francisco, Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Albany Law Review, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer Publishing Company, The Pharos New!
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Legal tensions profoundly affect physicians' ethical conduct in everyday medical practice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
clinical practice parameters, legal defensiveness, most risk managers, liability anxiety, legal anxieties, many risk managers, risk management advice, legal apprehensions, defensive medicine, physician anxiety, malpractice system, legal fears, physician behavior, medical malpractice litigation, physician compliance, physician perceptions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, American Medical News, Archives of Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Hastings Center Report, Wall Street Journal, General Accounting Office, Journal of Law, Office of Technology Assessment, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Associated Press, Government Printing Office, Critical Care Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians, Code of Federal Regulations, San Francisco, Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Albany Law Review, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer Publishing Company, The Pharos New!
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- Medical Ethics by Thomas F. Wall on 5 pages
- Internal Medicine by Borm Bruckmeier Publishing on 4 pages
- Human Error in Medicine (Human Error and Safety) by Marilyn Sue Bogner on page 46, page 49, and page 165
- Critical Care, 3rd Edition by Joseph M. Civetta on page 95, and page 168
- Critical Care (Clinical Pocket Manual) by Jean Robinson on page 120, and page 139
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- Medical Malpractice: A Comprehensive Analysis by Vasanthaku N. Bhat on page 26, and Back Matter
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