Legal Issues in Medical Practice

Section I:: Medical Ethics and Law
1. The Ethics of Medical Practice
2. Confidentiality and Disclosure in Medical Practice
3. Disclosing Medical Errors:: Why, When and How?
4. End of Life Care Decisions:: Ethical and Legal Issues
5. Medical Professionalism:: Focus on Communication Skills

Section II:: Documentation of Patient Care:: The Legal Aspects
6. Medicolegal Aspects of Informed Consent
7. Medicolegal Aspects of Medical Records

Section III:: Litigation against Medical Practitioners
8. Medical Negligence:: Meaning, Scope and Legal Interpretation
9. How to Defend Medical Negligence Lawsuit?
10. Compensation in Medical Negligence:: How much is justified?
11. Professional Indemnity Insurance:: Better Safe than Sorry

Section IV:: Medical Laws and Judgments Governing the Medical Professionals
12. Landmark Judgments Related to Medical Professionals
13. Medicolegal Outlook on Transplantation of Human Organs Act
14. Medicolegal Outlook on Biomedical Waste Management Act
15. Medicolegal Outlook on PC-PNDT Act

Section V:: Medicolegal Issues in Various Specialties
16. Medicolegal Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology
17. Medicolegal Issues in Surgery
18. Medicolegal Issues in Orthopedics
19. Medicolegal Issues in Ophthalmology
20. Medicolegal Issues in Pediatrics
21. Medicolegal Issues in Radiology
22. Medicolegal Issues in Blood Transfusion Practice
23. Medicolegal Issues in Dentistry
24. Medicolegal Issues in Anesthesiology