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Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, Second Edition

Author(s): George D. Pozgar, MBA, CHE
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763764739
  • Paperback    426 pages      © 2010
Price: International Sales $115.95 US List
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Overview

Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, Second Edition is the ideal resource for legal and ethical dilemmas facing health care professionals today. This book will help readers prepare for the ethical issues they will experience on the job and teach them how to evaluate the right and wrong courses of action when faced with complicated legal problems. Through contemporary topics presented with a real-world perspective, readers will develop the critical thinking skills needed for the moral decisions they will encounter in the health care environment. The Second Edition now contains several new features, including real-life scenarios described in Case Studies, Reality Checks, and People Stories as well as Discussion Questions and a Chapter Review at the end of each chapter. 

Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, Second Edition is the ideal introductory legal and ethical text for all health professions students.

Features

  • Presents legal and ethical concepts in an accessible manner
  • Reviews basic principles of ethics and law
  • Discusses how ethics and the law are involved in all decisions made in health care settings
  • Presents true-to-life case studies

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Introductory Quotes

Case studies with discussion questions 

End of chapter review

Test your understanding questions

Reality checks - NEW!

People stories - NEW!

Newspaper clippings - NEW!

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Chapter  One  Introduction to Ethics
Chapter  Two  Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas
Chapter  Three  End-of-Life Dilemmas
Chapter  Four  Health Care Ethics Committee
Chapter  Five  Development of Law
Chapter  Six  Introduction to Law
Chapter  Seven  Government, Ethics, and the Law
Chapter  Eight  Organizational Ethics and the Law
Chapter  Nine  Health Care Professionals’ Ethical and Legal Issues
Chapter  Ten  Physicians’ Ethical and Legal Issues
Chapter  Eleven  Employee Rights and Responsibilities
Chapter  Twelve  Patient Consent
Chapter  Thirteen  Patient Abuse
Chapter  Fourteen  Patient Rights and Responsibilities
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George D. Pozgar, MBA, CHE

George Pozgar received his Bachelor of Arts from the United College of Gordon and Barrington in Wenham, MA, and his Master of Business Administration in Health Care Administration from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.   Mr. Pozgar is presently a surveyor for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and has surveyed more than 700 hospitals across the nation. He served as Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Episcopal Health Services in Hempstead, New York; Administrator at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Smithtown, New York; Assistant Administrator at Huntington Hospital in Huntington, New York; Administrative Resident at Baptist Memorial Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida; Administrative Clerk at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.; and Research Assistant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton Management Consultants in Washington, D.C.

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  • "This is a solid introductory level book for students and health professionals with limited exposure to ethics and health law. The organization and style may make the topics more readily accessible for novice students who may otherwise be intimidated by a more robust and scholarly approach to bioethics and health law. It also provides a valuable and handy reference for those with more familiarity and experience in the field."

    ~ Aaliyah Eaves-Leanos, J.D., Saint Louis University (for Doody's Book Review October 2009)

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Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Care

Ethical and Legal Issues for Health Professionals

Medical Ethics and Law

Health Care Ethics

Health Care Law

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