Publications .: Medico-Legal Handbook for Doctors

Designed to provide guidance to doctors on ethical & medical matters in clinical practice, our senior adviser Dr. Dotun Adenugba, has published a book titled ‘Medico-Legal Handbook for Doctors’ with a contribution by Alison Eddy, Partner Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, London. This book is an essential reading for doctors.

This handbook:

• Contains basic legal and ethical concepts in clinical practice.
• Is clear, concise and jargon free.
• Demonstrates how the law cuts across medical practice.
• Illustrated with case law and case scenarios.
• Provides guidance on avoiding pitfalls in clinical practice

Where medicine and the law meet the doctor is usually at a disadvantage.

Not understanding the law as it applies to medicine can cause considerable anxiety in the doctor and affect good clinical judgements. Even in daily life the law is associated with mystique and incomprehension, its language both written and spoken impenetrable by the uninitiated.

Recently however, society has entered an era where the doctor cannot be an effective clinician without a modicum of knowledge of the workings of the law. This book is written for the doctor who feels unsure about medico-legal matters or lacks confidence when entering this area.

Miss Adenugba’s book demystifies the law. The book decodes its language and explains the concepts behind it. It shows how laws come about, how they are tested and how they are refined. With this basic knowledge the book shows how the doctor can navigate safely through the menacing waters of malpractice, research ethics, the workplace and everywhere the law has an influence.

Having read this book the doctor will be free to treat the patient without anxiety or being hampered by misconceptions.

John Bolger

• Preface
• Introduction


• Part I - Legal Relations
• The Doctor and the Employer
• The Doctor and the Patient
• Part II - Applied Medical Law and Ethics
• Consent
• Confidentiality
• Continuity of Information
• Governance and Clinical Risk Management
• Part III - Things Fall Apart
• GMC Complaints Procedure
• NHS Complaints Procedure
• Dealing with an Adverse Incident
• Responding to Complaints
• Appendix

We appreciate your choice to purchase this important guide to Medico-Legal matters.

Your purchase will be handled securely through Paypal, our payment transactions partner. And your copy will be shipped within 24 hours of receipt of payment from our Metropolitan London office.

Price: £9.99 each + S&H

This handbook may also be purchased from Medical and Royal Colleges book shops.

Please contact us at info@thelegaldoc.co.uk if you have any questions or wish to make a quantity purchase.