The Australian Medico-Legal Handbook with PDA Software

Cameron Stewart · Ian Kerridge · Malcolm Parker

Nov 2007 · Elsevier Health Sciences

About this ebook

The Australian Medico-Legal Handbook will be provided with PDA software and aims to give JMOs immediate, clear and concise answers to the most frequently asked legal questions arising during hospital training. Doctors carry very little when they are in the ward but are increasingly carrying PDAs, making the accompanying software an ideal content delivery method.

• The handbook and accompanying PDA software is the only one of its kind offered to Australian JMOs.
• Content development is based around the authors' research through ongoing focus groups into the most commonly asked questions by the end user, that is, JMOs in the hospital training environment.
• Law updates and other relevant materials (including guidelines and links to relevant Health Department documents) will be provided on the accompanying Evolve site.
• Written by a proven author team, each an expert in the medico-legal and/or ethical fields.
• Clinical problems will be outlined with cross-referencing to the appropriate sections of the handbook. These questions will be posed in the style and format used by clinicians, for example: ‘What if I get sued?' ‘What do I do if someone refuses treatment?' ‘What deaths do I refer to the Coroner?' ‘What if I make a mistake?' ‘Who makes decisions about a child's treatment?'

About the author

Cameron Stewart BEc LLB, PhD, is a member of Sydney Health Law and an associate of the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Professor of Health, Law and Ethics at the University of Sydney Law School. He was acting Dean of Law in Sydney Law School, acting president of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law and Ethics in 2008-2010 and was the Vice-President of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law from 2010-2013.