Medical Practice and Malpractice

Contents: Malpractice and the presuppositions of medical practice, David T. Ozar; What's so special about medicine?, Daniel P. Sulamasy; Clinical loyalties and the social purpose of medicine, M. Gregg Bloche. Liability of Medical Practitioners: A Fiduciary Relationship?: The doctor as fiduciary, Andrew Grubb. Confidentiality: Secrets revealed: the limits of medical confidence, Louis Waller. Standard of Care: 100 years of harmful error: the historical jurisprudence of medical malpractice, Theodore Silver; Medicine, accountability and professionalism, Jonathan Montgomery; The Bolam test and the responsible expert, Michael A. Jones; Medical malpractice and the contract/tort boundary, P.S. Atiyah; Medical malpractice implications of alternative medicine, David M. Studdert, David M. Eisenberg, Francis H. Miller, Daniel A. Curto, Ted J. Kaptchuk and Troyen A. Brennan; Practice guidelines as legal standards governing physician liability, Clark C. Havighurst. Causation: Causation, risk and loss of chance in medical negligence, Marc Stauch. Informed Consent: Rethinking informed consent, Peter H. Schuck; English medical law and 'informed consent': an antipodean assessment and alternative, P.D.G. Skegg; The powers of compassion: truth-telling among American doctors in the case of dying patients, Naoko T. Miyaji. Institutional Liability: Enterprise medical liability and the evolution of the American health care system, Kenneth S. Abraham and Paul C. Weiler. Social Foundations of Medical Malpractice Litigation: Medical malpractice in 20th-century United States: the interaction of technology, law and culture, Kenneth de Ville. Medical Injury, Litigation and Compensation: An empirical analysis of accidents and accident law, Troyen A. Brennan. Perceptions of Malpractice and Malpractice Litigation: Physicians' discourses on malpractice and the meaning of malpractice, Timothy Marjoribanks, Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Ann G. Lawthers and Lynn M. Peterson; Why do people sue doctors? A study of patients and relatives taking legal action, Charles Vincent, Magi Young and Angela Phillips. Reform and Future Directions: Alternative Dispute Resolution: Adapting mediation to link resolution of medical malpractice disputes with health care quality improvement, Edward A. Dauer and Leonard J. Marcus. No-Fault: Defining 'medical misadventure': lessons from New Zealand, Ken Oliphant. Doctor-Patient Relationships in the Electronic Age: E-Mail: On call and online: sociohistorical, legal and ethical implications of e-mail for the patient-physician relationship, Alissa R. Spielberg. Telemedicine: Telemedicine and integrated health care delivery: compounding malpractice liability, Patricia C. Kuszler; Name index.