- Contains real life cases and examples
- A how-to guide to navigate and avoid medico-legal problems
- Each chapter focuses on a different medical situation related to urology
This book provides a guide on how to navigate and avoid medico-legal problems associated with the management of patients with urological diagnosis. Each chapter focuses on a different medical situation related to urology and discusses how they can be managed.
The book aims to utilise the experience and understanding of its authors to help its readers manage and avoid medico-legal issues.
This book is relevant to urologists, allied health professionals, nurses, physiotherapists, physicians, and medical legal practitioners.
Table of Contents- Introduction to Medical Law
- Clinical Negligence and Malpractice
- Medicolegal Pitfalls
- Communication in Healthcare
- When Communication Goes Wrong in Medicine
- Communication Between Different Levels Within a Team
- Communication Within a Theatre Team
- Digital Communications in Urology During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Legal Records and Documentation
- Consent
- Administrative Problems
- Prescribing
- Diagnostics
- Operating Theatre Issues
- Human Factors in Healthcare
- Managing Difficult Seniors
- Leadership in Medicine
- Managing a Complaint
- The Anatomy of Failure and How to Avoid It
- Raising a Concern in Training
- The GMC Investigation
- Approach to GMC Investigations, How to Handle Them and What to Do
- Burn Out in Medicine
- NHS Whistleblowing
