| Law & Medicine provides ready to use medical-legal resources
that are case based, patient centered and include audio CDs with corresponding
written
materials, or are available through our E-Learning
Modules as web-based training. Created exclusively by Victor Cotton,
MD, Esquire, a nationally acclaimed lecturer on medical-legal issues, these
risk reduction resources will supply you with concise, practical answers
to the questions you face daily.
Dr. Cotton's unique method not only distills the law to its fundamental
principles, but also demonstrates how you can apply these principles in
your clinical practice daily.
Dr. Cotton has been at the bedside and his materials focus on empowering
physicians and preventing malpractice. They are designed to meet medical-legal
risk management training requirements and supply you with enduring materials
that you will reference again and again.
Medical-Legal Educational
Package - Volume 1
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Comprehensive package including Modules 1-6
Medical-Legal Educational
Series
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Modules 1 & 2 The Doctor-Patient Relationship and The Standard
of Care
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Modules 3 & 4 Proper Prescribing and Informed Consent
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Modules 5 & 6 Better Documentation and HIPAA
E-Learning
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Each of the above six modules is also available online through E-Learning,
as web-based training, for convenient 24/7 accessibility.
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In addition, E-learning offers Case Study Modules, which supply instruction
on more in-depth medical-legal topics, such as Patient Competency, Evaluating
& Treating Pain, The National Practitioner Data Bank, Managed Care,
and Delay in Diagnosis, etc.
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"The law is inseparably linked to every aspect of the practice
of medicine. If our goal is to deliver the best possible patient care,
then a fundamental understanding of the law is as important as a fundamental
understanding of physiology and biochemistry."
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A colleague asks for your friendly opinion of an ECG, are
you incurring liability if you answer? |
| 2. |
You learn that the treatment you just prescribed is actually an "off
label" use of the drug. How should you respond? |
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You call a patient's home regarding a change in the dose of his blood
pressure medication. His wife answers the phone. Should you leave the message
with her? |
| 4. |
A managed care company will not pay for the drug of choice. If you
prescribe a less effective medication instead, are you responsible for
the consequences? |
| 5. |
During your discussion with the patient about his upcoming surgery,
you do not mention the extremely unlikely possibility that he may experience
chronic postoperative incisional pain. If he subsequently develops this
condition, have you breached his right of informed consent? |
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If you exceed the manufacturer's recommended maximum dose for an opioid
analgesic, are you risking prosecution by the DEA? |
| 7. |
The literature is divided as to the best treatment option, but the
physicians in your community clearly favor one approach over the other.
Are you obligated to also favor and follow that approach? |
| 8. |
A patient who is diabetic refuses to begin using insulin. How often
should you ask him if he is willing to reconsider? |
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A patient who is fully functional, but of below average intelligence,
refuses to have a biopsy of a suspicious lesion in her breast. Should her
decision be respected? |
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Despite a scholarly and attentive approach, the patient's condition
is initially misdiagnosed. By the time the proper diagnosis is made, the
patient's condition has significantly deteriorated. Is the delay in diagnosis
a violation of the standard of care? |
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