Medicolegal Issues for Diagnostic Imaging Professionals, Fourth Edition - Hardcover

Parelli, Robert J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574440810 ISBN 13: 9781574440812

Publisher: CRC Press, 1996

Synopsis

Designed to enhance the work and study of radiographers and imaging specialists, this third edition provides critically relevant applications of the law from a radiographer's perspective. Written in a clear and highly understandable format, the book enlightens readers on medicolegal and ethical situations that they might encounter in their daily professional routine. Designed to provide meaning and interpretation for legal situations, the book includes case studies that give legal insight and implications. The book integrates tort law, labor law, and legal doctrines with ethics, patient rights, risk management, and forensic radiology.

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Review

..."well written...I would recommend it as required reading." -Dana Brown-Klein, J.D., M.A., Professor, Health Science

From the Author

Health care professional must be aware of medicolegal issues
This book is focused on the field of radiography. However, it can be useful to any person working in the area of imaging. The book is extremely relevant to the actual applications of law from the radiographer's perspective. The book integrates tort law, labor law, legal doctrines, ethics, patient rights, and risk management. It has centered the vignettes around the radiographer and the radiology department.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574440810
• ISBN 13: 9781574440812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 216