Important Clinical Mistakes

Clinical negligence litigation is big business. To do it properly, practitioners need to understand a good deal of anatomy, pathology, physiology, medicine and surgery. But although clinical negligence cases clog the courts, the types of problems which occur frequently in a medico-legal context, or which are financially significant when they do, are relatively few in number. This book gives British legal practitioners enough basic biological and clinical knowledge to deal confidently with those problems. In all the medico-legally important specialties, expert clinical contributors highlight those difficulties which get them turning anxiously to their professional indemnity policies. They then give simple tutorials on the science and the medicine behind those problems. Their contributions are followed by a short legal commentary from a specialist clinical negligence barrister on the specifically legal difficulties associated with bringing or defending cases involving those clinical problems.