Law & Ethics for Medical Careers

by Karen Judson, Carlene Harrison

Law and Ethics for Medical Careers, Fifth Edition , provides an overview of the laws and ethics you should know to help you give competent, compassionate care to patients that is within acceptable legal and ethical boundaries. The text can also serve as a guide to help you resolve the many legal and ethical questions you may reasonably expect to face as a student and, later, as a health care practitioner. The text features pertinent legal cases, anecdotes, and sidebars related to health-related careers. Content has been updated and special attention has been paid to legislation affecting health care.

400 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 1998

About the author

Karen Judson taught biology laboratories at Black Hills University in Spearfish, SD., high school sciences in Idaho, and grades one and three in Washington state. She is also a former laboratory and x-ray technician and completed two years of nurses' training while completing a degree in Biology.

Karen has worked as a science writer since 1983. She has written relationship, family, and psychology articles for a variety of magazines, including a series of high school classroom magazines, making a total of 500 articles published. Karen writes science and relationship books for teenagers. (Enslow and Marshall Cavendish publishers.)

Her book for teens, Sports & Money: It's a Sell Out, made the New York City Public Library's list of best books for teens in 1995. Another book for teens, Genetic Engineering, was chosen by the National Science Teachers' Association as one of the best science books for children in 2001 and was featured on the NSTA website.

Reviews

[Landon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Required reading for my medical law class. It's a pretty good textbook, has a lot of good information and a ton a interesting case study, real life examples to help explain healthcare law, and law in general. Good book, great class.

[Kendall · Rating 4 out of 5]

A monkey could learn medical law and ethics from this book.

[Aimee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like the way this book is organized.... no noticeable mistakes ...well written

[Tracy Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my texts for one of my medical classes. Interesting information, fairly easy to follow.