Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Legal Medicine PART ONE: MEDICAL LICENSURE, CREDENTIALING AND PRIVILEGING, PROFILING AND IMPAIRMENT 2 Medical Practice: Education and Licensure 3 Medical Staff Peer Review in the Credentialing and Privileging of Physicians 4 Physician Profile Databases 5 Health Care Professional Impairment PART TWO: BUSINESS ASPECTS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE 6 Health Care Provider Contracts 7 Agency 8 Antitrust 9 Complementary and Alternative Medicine 10 Practice Organizations and Joint Ventures 11 Coproviders and Institutional Practice 12 Physician as an Employer 13 Health Professionals and the Regulated Industry: The Laws and Regulations Enforced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 14 Health Insurance and Professional Liability Insurance 15 Patents, Intellectual Property, and Licenses 16 Federal Health Information Privacy Requirements PART THREE: MEDICOLEGAL AND ETHICAL ENCOUNTERS 17 Ethics and Bioethics 18 Research and Experimentation 19 The Human Genome Project 20 Legal Interests of the Fetal Patient 21 Organ Donation and Transplantation 22 Life Care Planning: Ethical and Legal Issues 23 The Process of Dying 24 Physician-Assisted Suicide and Palliative Sedation PART FOUR: PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL LIABILITY 25 Medical Malpractice Overview 26 Patient Safety and Health Care Quality 27 Medications Errors 28 Disclosure of Adverse Outcome and Apologizing to Injured Patient 29 Risk Management 30 Alternative Dispute Resolution 31 Physicians-Patient Relationship 32 Competency and Capacity: A Primer 33 Informed Consent to Medical and Surgical Treatment 34 Medical Records: Paper and Electronic 35 Medical Testimony and the Expert Witness 36 Liability of Health Care Entities for Negligent Care 37 Liability of Managed Care Organizations 38 Pharmacist Malpractice and Liability 39 Medical Product Liability 40 Telemedicine and Electronic Mail Communication with Patients 41 Professional Liability in Emergency Medicine 42 Legal Issues in Newborn Intensive Care 43 Liability in Obstetrics and Gynecology 44 Liability of Ophthalmologists 45 Liability of Otolaryngologists 46 Liability of Radiologists 47 Liability of Neurologists 48 Liability of Plastic Surgeons 49 Nursing and the Law 50 Dental Litigation: Triad of Concerns 51 Criminalization of Medical Negligence 52 Crimes by Health Care Providers 53 Countersuits by Health Care Providers 54 No-Fault Medical Malpractice System in New Zealand PART FIVE: CARE OF SPECIAL PATIENTS 55 Children as Patients 56 Child Abuse 57 Domestic Violence Patients 58 Geriatric Patients 59 Cancer Genetics: Discrimination And Counseling 60 Brain-Injured Patients 61 Patients with HIV Infection and AIDS 62 The Law and the Relief of Pain: Pain Management 63 Sports Medicine PART SIX: FORENSIC SCIENCE AND MEDICINE 64 Forensic Pathology 65 Forensic Engineering 66 Forensic Toxicology 67 Forensic Psychiatry 68 Criminalistics 69 Forensic Entomology 70 Forensic Odontology 71 Utilization of Forensic Science in the Civil and Criminal Justice Systems: Forensic Use of Medical Information PART SEVEN: LEGAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH 72 Occupational Health Law 73 Public Health Law 74 Legal Aspects Of Bioterrorism PART EIGHT: INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS 75 Physician Licensing and Disciplining in England and Europe 76 Privacy 77 Drivers and the Law

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ACLM is a national medical specialty society recognized by AMA, as shown in the list of member organizations of the AMA House of Delegates (https: //www.ama-assn.org/house-delegates/hod-organization/member-organizations-ama-house-delegates).