The Legal and Ethical Aspects of Telemedicine

Legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine.

There are many issues of concern regarding the legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine. These include the responsibilities and potential liabilities of the health professional, the duty to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of patient records, and the jurisdictional problems associated with cross-border consultations. There is also the issue of reimbursement for care provided using a te...

Ethical and legal aspects of clinical trials.

legal and ethical aspects of genetic consulation

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Healthy limb amputation: ethical and legal aspects.

A surgeon in Scotland has amputated the legs of two consenting, physically healthy patients. Although a handful of medical professionals believe that the desire for healthy limb amputation is symptomatic of a mental disorder that can be treated only by amputation, there is currently no consensus on what causes a person to desire such a disabling intervention. As long as there is no established ...

The Legal and Ethical Aspects of Medical Quackery

The writer of this book is not a medical man; the book has suffered a little on this account. On the other hand it could not have been written by a medical man, unless he had had a vast amount of leg'al experience. The ideal book would be a collaboration between a medical man and a lawyer; the author of this book sought a medical collaborator but he was advised that the General Medical Council ...