Standards of Care in Emergency Medicine

Download or read book Standards of Care in Emergency Medicine written by H. Neil Wigder and published by Company Law & Business. This book was released on 1998 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear of malpractice affects the way physicians practice medicine. Continuing concerns over malpractice are eased considerably when physicians and attorneys have an understanding of medical standards of care. Such standards, established by a consensus of physicians exist, though they are not formally codified. This manual, written for both physicians and attorneys, defines these standards of care and delineates their relationship to legal issues that arise in malpractice actions.