English law for the surgeon II: Clinical negligence

Traditionally, in the United Kingdom and Europe, the surgeon was generally not troubled by litigation from patients presenting as elective as well as emergency cases, but this aspect of custom has changed. Litigation by patients now significantly affects surgical practice and vicarious liability oft...

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Autores principales: Jerjes, Waseem, Mahil, Jaspal, Upile, Tahwinder
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3259084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22189041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-3-52
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description Traditionally, in the United Kingdom and Europe, the surgeon was generally not troubled by litigation from patients presenting as elective as well as emergency cases, but this aspect of custom has changed. Litigation by patients now significantly affects surgical practice and vicarious liability often affects hospitals. We discuss some fundamental legal definitions, a must to know for a surgeon, and highlight some interesting cases.
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spelling pubmed-32590842012-01-17 English law for the surgeon II: Clinical negligence Jerjes, Waseem Mahil, Jaspal Upile, Tahwinder Head Neck Oncol Review Traditionally, in the United Kingdom and Europe, the surgeon was generally not troubled by litigation from patients presenting as elective as well as emergency cases, but this aspect of custom has changed. Litigation by patients now significantly affects surgical practice and vicarious liability often affects hospitals. We discuss some fundamental legal definitions, a must to know for a surgeon, and highlight some interesting cases. BioMed Central 2011-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3259084/ /pubmed/22189041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-3-52 Text en Copyright ©2011 Jerjes et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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