Duty to Warn in the Emergency Department: Three Medical Legal Cases That Illustrate Providers’ Broad Risk and Liability

This article presents three medical-legal cases that define a physician’s duty to warn and include caveats on medical practice within the scope of the law. Some physicians may not recognize that these legal and liability requirements extend not only to physical danger, but also to infectious disease...

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Autores principales: Pfaff, Rosemary, Berkeley, Ross P., Moore, Gregory, Heniff, Melanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020
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Medical Legal Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32926668
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.5.47222
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spelling pubmed-74342682020-08-20 Duty to Warn in the Emergency Department: Three Medical Legal Cases That Illustrate Providers’ Broad Risk and Liability Pfaff, Rosemary Berkeley, Ross P. Moore, Gregory Heniff, Melanie Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Medical Legal Case Reports This article presents three medical-legal cases that define a physician’s duty to warn and include caveats on medical practice within the scope of the law. Some physicians may not recognize that these legal and liability requirements extend not only to physical danger, but also to infectious diseases, medical illness, and drug effects. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7434268/ /pubmed/32926668 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.5.47222 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Pfaff et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title_full Duty to Warn in the Emergency Department: Three Medical Legal Cases That Illustrate Providers’ Broad Risk and Liability
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title_short Duty to Warn in the Emergency Department: Three Medical Legal Cases That Illustrate Providers’ Broad Risk and Liability
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434268/
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