A Straightforward Guide to Negligence in Healthcare (Paperback)

Paperback. This comprehensive book, Negligence in Healthcare: A simple guide for Patients, Carers and Practitioners discusses how negligence works in practice. It examines the legal duty that a healthcare practitioner has to a patient, as well as what needs to be established for a negligence case to be successful. This book, which is a follow up to Healthcare Rights and Law for Patients, Carers and Practitioners, will be ideal for those wishing to know more about negligence in healthcare settings, whether a patient, someone caring for a patient, or healthcare practitioners. The following areas are covered in detail: what is negligence?, alternatives to negligence claims, duty of care owed to patients, the standard that practitioners have to meet, how negligence claims are accessed, good samaritan acts. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.