Healthcare professionals face an increasing threat of litigation from parties whom they have never met in their daily medical practice and who look nothing like the traditional patient. This book explores the legal principles and conundrums which arise when determining a healthcare professional?s liability in negligence towards a wide variety of non-patients.
Contents: Preface; Part I Setting the Context: The book: an overview; Establishing negligence in novel non-patient scenarios. Part II Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Physical Injuries to Non-Patients: Injuries to non-patients caused by physically-impaired or mentally-ill patients; Contraction or inheritance of disease by non-patients from patients; 'Bad Samaritan' liability: failing to assist non-patients; 'Good Samaritan' liability: intervening to assist non-patients. Part III Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Non-Physical Injuries to Non-Patients: Pure economic loss claims by 3rd parties associated with the patient; Pure psychiatric injury claims by 3rd parties associated with the patient; 'Fear-of-the-future' claims by non-patients; Wrongfully-accused 3rd parties in neglect or abuse cases; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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