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PubMed2006

Coroner calls ED death a homicide--some predict chilling effect.

A coroner's claim opens the possibility of criminal charges against ED staff for the death of a patient. While you can't prevent legal action from being taken, you can limit the potential liability of you and your staff. Ensure that your staff follow reasonable triage procedures at all times. Make sure your triage staff are well trained and portray good intentions. Keep your patients and their families informed about timeliness of service and any delays.

Coroners and Medical Examiners↗
PubMed1996

[Truth at the bedside and physicians' legal responsibilities].

This contribution illustrates the problems of medical information on unfavorable diagnoses and prognoses form a legal view. The eminent significance of informed consent for the legitimation of medical action in German and Swiss law results in far-reaching duties of doctors to also inform in the cases; however, restrictions are accepted in the patient's predominant health interest. When a patient wishes information on the results and the prognosis, this is regularly to be fulfilled, even when further therapeutical measures are no longer the issue. The professional secrecy demands caution when relatives are concerned, as long as they are not legal representatives and competent for decision-making or as long as the (presumable) will of the patient consents to them being informed. As to the question of how the information is to be conveyed, one can only formulate general legal principles: unjustly leaving a patient ignorant may create a liability of the doctor, applies also to 'brutal information' which lacking the slightest bit of empathy.

Confidentiality↗
PubMed1998

[Some specific aspects of dentistry's professional responsibility: tooth extraction surgery, prosthodontics, implantology and HIV infection].

In the last decades the problem of professional responsibility of the doctors went through deep conceptual re-examination. Some criteria, both general and more technically legal, are presented in order to correctly evaluate the professional liability. Then some specific aspects of the object are examined, such as the damaging of the inferior alveolar nerve after dental extraction, the problems concerning dental prosthetics and implants as well as the questions about HIV infection, acquired by patients or collaborators of the dentist, in his office.

Dental Implantation↗