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Pozgar, a health care consultant, offers guidance to health care students on dealing with legal and ethical dilemmas. He addresses ethical theories and the basic principles of ethics and law; contemporary dilemmas like abortion, AIDS, artificial insemination, organ donation, sterilization, research and clinical trials, surrogacy, human genetics, and end-of-life dilemmas; health care ethics committees; government, ethics, and the law; organizational ethics and the law; ethical and legal issues for various healthcare professions, with a separate chapter for physicians; employee and patient rights and responsibilities; patient consent; and patient abuse. This edition includes expanded discussion of ethics, virtues, and values, with a focus on ethics in public service; updated coverage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; a new summary case chapter; a new appendix on using Internet resources to find information; new discussion of social workers; and new and updated quotes, newspaper clippings, patient experiences, provider and organization experiences, and cases. A companion website includes crosswords, flashcards, a glossary, matching questions, and links. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, Third Edition provides the reader with a clear understanding of the law and ethics as it relates to health care dilemmas. The practical application of ethics in the health care setting is accomplished by interspersing the thoughts of great minds through Quotes and the real world of Newspaper Articles, patient experiences through People Stories, provider and organizational experiences through Reality Checks, and Legal Case Studies. This dynamic texts concludes with a Closet Drama that ties all the elements of the text together in one case.Each new print textbook includes an online access code for a Companion Website with helpful student resources. Access to the Companion Website may be purchased separately. http://www.jblearning.com/cart/Default.aspx?bc=7135-8&ref=jblearningStudent Companion Website Includes:•Crossword Puzzles•Flashcards •Interactive Glossary•Matching Exercises•Review Questions•Web LinksInstructor Resources•Instructor's Manual, including a Sample Syllabus•PowerPoint Presentations•Formatted Test BankNew to the Third Edition Content and Data Updated and Revised Throughout Numerous New: Quotes, Newspaper Articles, People Stories, Reality Checks, and Legal Case Studies Chapter 1 - New: Expanded discussion of Ethics, Virtues and Values Chapter 7 - New Topics: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Democracy for the Wealthy: Fairness and Justice Illusive Ethics in Public Service CMS Non-Payment For Performance of Wrong Procedures Chapter 8 - New Topic: Accreditation of Hospitals and Conflicts of Interest Chapter 9 - New Additions: New Section: Social Workers New Abstract: Incidence and Recognition of Malnutrition in Hospital Chapter 15 - New Chapter: Summary Case--Star Chamber New Appendix: Website References
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