Merry and McCall Smith's Errors, Medicine and the Law

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Merry and McCall Smith's Errors, Medicine and the Law is written by Alan Merry and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1316851680 (ISBN 10) and 9781316851685 (ISBN 13).

There is an understandable tendency or desire to attribute blame when patients are harmed by their own healthcare. However, many cases of iatrogenic harm involve little or no moral culpability. Even when blame is justified, an undue focus on one individual often deflects attention from other important factors within the inherent complexity of modern healthcare. This revised second edition advocates a rethinking of accountability in healthcare based on science, the principles of a just culture, and novel therapeutic legal processes. Updated to include many recent relevant events, including the Keystone Project in the USA and the Mid Staffordshire scandal in the UK, this book considers how the concepts of a just culture have been successfully implemented so far, and makes recommendations for best practice. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with patient safety, medical law and the regulation of healthcare.