Promoting Legal Awareness in Physical and Occupational Therapy

Download or read book Promoting Legal Awareness in Physical and Occupational Therapy written by Ronald W. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader friendly format enforces key legal concepts helps occupational and physical therapy students integrate those concepts into clinically relevant examples. Legal topics discussed include informed consent, contracts, malpractice, and insurance. Rehearsal scenarios help the reader to practice testifying as an expert witness. Glossary relates health care law and ethics cases and questions, risk management hints in plain English, not legalese. Comprehensive annotated bibliographies are included. Features clinically relevant legal information in easy-to-understand language, with a minimum of judiciary jargon Links US health care law to ethics