Medico-Legal Issues in Air Gun Injuries

Medico legal issues.

This chapter gives an educational overview of: * An awareness of the legal issues involved in health informatics * The need for the privacy and security of the patient record * The legal consequences of a breach of the security of the patient record * The concept of privacy law and what precautions ought to be taken to minimize legal liability for a breach of privacy and/or confidentiality.

Medico-legal issues in Victorian medical care.

The medico-legal issues raised by 'conscientious objection' constitute a particularly revealing, though hitherto neglected instance of the emerging relationship between community responsibility and personal health during the late Victorian period. The following paragraphs seek to indicate the relevance of a medico-legal approach to Victorian social history, and to suggest certain areas of resea...

Suicide in depressed patients: medico-legal issues.

Injuries to the Eye in Their Medico-Legal Aspect

requirements of ophthalmic surgeons who maj^ be called upon to state in evidence the cause, nature and consequences of injuries to the eye received by workers in factories, quarries and other industrial occupations. The varieties of such injuries are carefully and concisely described in the first two portions of the book and are treated especially from a prognostic standpoint. Numerous cases il...

Railway Injuries: In Their Medico-Legal and Clinical Aspects

not be disappointed. Mr. Page has the satisfaction of finding that the views which he then expressed as to the nature and pathogeny of these affections, and which were in strong divergence from those most widely prevalent at that time (1883), have met with general acceptance not only in this country, but by foreign writers also. His subsequent experience has served to confirm his former opinion...