Medico-legal RadiologyElsevier Australia, 2007 - 201 páginas This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Radiologists are sued for all sorts of reasons - but particularly when diagnoses are missed - and in compensation cases their reports can be critical in determining the outcome. Medico-Legal Radiology describes over 100 cases from the author's personal experience as an expert witness, and makes suggestions for reducing risk and tailoring report-writing to the legal environment.
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Contenido
Radiologists and the | 10 |
Breast cancer | 11 |
The radiologist as a witness | 20 |
Litigants complainants and medical defence | 26 |
Interpretation of diagnostic images | 37 |
Writing reports | 44 |
The lungs | 65 |
Suggestions | 90 |
Suggestions | 122 |
Litigation related to procedures | 135 |
38 | 153 |
The abdomen | 154 |
The circulation | 165 |
Necroradiology | 179 |
Appendices | 188 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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