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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSECTION 1: Basis of Medical Negligence, Communication, Documentation, and Consent
1. Introduction to Medical Negligence
2. Effective Communication in Doctor-Patient and Medicolegal Contexts
3. Medical Documentation: The Only Defense for Doctors
4. Record Keeping, Making Easy
5. Medical Consent: The Best Friend of Doctor
6. Logical Basis of Consent Formats
7. All About Medical Certificates
SECTION 2: Consumer, Criminal Laws, Litigation Process, and Limiting Liability
8. Consumer Protection Act-2019
9. Application of Criminal Law to Medical Practice
10. Dealing with Civil Pre-Litigation and Litigation Process
11. Limiting the Liability in Case of Alleged Medical Negligence
12. Outdoor and Indoor Practice Giving Rise to Legal Liabilities in Medical Practice
13. Advance Deposit Before Admission and While Discharge Bill not Paid in Hospital
14. Landmark Supreme Court Judgments and Their Importance in Medicolegal Litigations
SECTION 3: Various Scenarios in Medical Negligence
15. Medicolegal Aspects of Difficult Situation of Unexpected Death
16. Prevention of Violence Against Doctors
17. Medicolegal Issues in Pediatric Critical Care
18. Medicolegal Aspects of Vaccinations
19. Medicolegal Aspects of Transferring the Acute Ill Patients, Transit Death, Inadvertent use of Expiry Drug
20. Legalities in Developmental Pediatrics
21. Medicolegal Aspects for Pediatric Surgery
22. Legalities in Neonatology
23. Legal Hurdles of Police, RTI, Labor and Drug Inspectors, Fire NOC, Bio-Waste in Medical Practice
SECTION 4: Miscellaneous
24. Understanding National Medical Commission Act 2019 and Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics and CEA 2010
25. Professional Indemnity and Out-of-Court Settlement
