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By Richard Notley, John M. Reynard, James Badenoch
The specter of litigation is ever current for present day health professional. in lots of circumstances it effects from actual negligence; in others the health care professional can have acted with no fault, and but an try to sue is made.
So, how can one steer clear of finishing up in court docket? What sorts of situations tend for misdiagnosis or mismanagement? What are the major methods of keeping off litigation? This ebook offers solutions to those questions, utilizing examples of circumstances during which the authors were individually concerned. in addition to the typical subject matters of malpractice circumstances, the habit features of surgeons that predispose to litigation also are explored, and the wide variety of examples mentioned give you the reader, rather the more youthful one, with a 'cumulative' event that simply the habitually negligent health practitioner will adventure in a life of surgical practice.
While the most objective of this booklet is to maintain surgeons out of courtroom, it's going to be noticeable not only in a slender 'defensive' context, yet in a broader one - that of stopping damage to sufferers. sufferer security is on the middle of excellent surgical perform, and it is just via sharing studies of why issues get it wrong that we will hinder blunders from happening sooner or later.
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So in your own best interests, do ensure that all important documentation is reliably secured within the notes. This includes consent forms, notes of your pre-operative counselling and the operation note. 8 Clifford Ayling was a GP from Kent who was convicted of 13 counts of indecent assault on female patients between 1991 and 1998. He was imprisoned for 4 years in December 2000 and removed from the medical register by the GMC in 2001. The Ayling report followed an independent inquiry into the way that the NHS dealt with allegations about Clifford Ayling’s conduct.
Clearly, in the case of nephrectomy, the patient will usually not have symptoms referable to the diseased side and they will only know which kidney is to be removed because you have told them which side. qxd 7/26/2006 9:58 AM Page 41 WHAT CAN BE DONE TO PREVENT POSSIBLE LITIGATION?
Write legibly and write enough to make it clear to anyone coming after you precisely what you found and what you intended to be done. Try not to use abbreviations, or if you do so try to remember to explain it the first time you do so, thus: shortness of breath (SOB). L0 S0 K00 is a common abbreviation for the findings on examination of the abdomen, signifying that the liver, spleen and kidneys are not palpable, but to the uninitiated it looks a bit like a visiting oriental princess! In particular you should write ‘right’ and ‘left’ in full, rather than ‘R’ and ‘L’ because some people’s Rs look like Ls.