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
Consultant Ophthalmologist

• 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

• "When I started reading this book I could not stop unti I finished it.

  This is not only a vital assistance to all doctors but also helpful for all kinds of lawyers representing medico legal cases before both civil and criminal courts.

  I strongly recommend this book to all doctors, managers in the NHS and private healthcare, and to the lawyers dealing with medico-legal cases."

  Dr. Kailash Mohanty (Justice of Peace) LLB, LLM
  Consultant Physician & Member Employment Appeal Tribunal (High Court) London

• " This book not only covers the medico-legal issues in clinical practice comprehensively, in a very readable format, but also examines the nature of governance and provides the background to ethical issues.

  It must be on the bookshelves of all those concerned with the teaching of medical & dental students the key elements of professional behaviour and practice; and all practising doctors should know where to lay their hands on a copy when needed- with perhaps a copy in every hospital ward and in every general practice."

  Graham Neale
  Imperial College London

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Price: £9.99 each + S&H

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