Duty to Warn in the Emergency Department: Three Medical Legal Cases That Illustrate Providers’ Broad Risk and Liability

Autor: Rosemary Pfaff, Ross P. Berkeley, Gregory Moore, Melanie Heniff
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, Vol 4, Iss 3 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2474-252X
DOI: 10.5811/cpcem.2020.5.47222
Popis: This article presents three medical-legal cases that define a physician’s duty to warn and include caveats on medical practice within the scope of the law. Some physicians may not recognize that these legal and liability requirements extend not only to physical danger, but also to infectious diseases, medical illness, and drug effects.
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