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Merry and McCall Smith's Errors, Medicine and the Law

Merry and McCall Smith's Errors, Medicine and the Law

Merry, Alan
Brookbanks, Warren

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law, Book 38

Medical ReferenceGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1316632253
ISBN13: 9781316632253
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Apr 3 2017
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
There is an understandable tendency or desire to attribute blame when patients are harmed by their own healthcare. However, many cases of iatrogenic harm involve little or no moral culpability. Even when blame is justified, an undue focus on one individual often deflects attention from other important factors within the inherent complexity of modern healthcare. This revised second edition advocates a rethinking of accountability in healthcare based on science, the principles of a just culture, and novel therapeutic legal processes. Updated to include many recent relevant events, including the Keystone Project in the USA and the Mid Staffordshire scandal in the UK, this book considers how the concepts of a just culture have been successfully implemented so far, and makes recommendations for best practice. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with patient safety, medical law and the regulation of healthcare.

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