Medicine for Lawyers

This book provides insight into some of the problems and pitfalls encountered in current medical practice. It helps lawyers to commission an expert witness to write a medical report and to interpret it, using their greater knowledge and a better understanding of the practice of medicine.

HM Coroner, Greater London (Southern District);Governor, Expert Witness Institute; formerly Secretary &Medical Director, The Medical Protection Society 1989-1998. Forensic Physician; Police Surgeon, West Yorkshire.

Preface -- 1. Basic medicine: physiology -- 2. Risk management in general practice -- 3. Emergency medicine -- 4. Intensive care medicine -- 5. General anaesthesia -- 6. Cardiac surgery -- 7. Abdominal surgery -- 8. Oncology -- 9. Gynaecology -- 10. Midwifery and obstetrics -- 11. Paediatrics -- 12. Paediatric surgery -- 13. Orthopaedics -- 14. Neurology -- 15. Psychiatry -- Further reading -- Glossary -- Index.