The ABA Complete and Easy Guide to Health Care Law: Your Guide to Protecting Your Rights as a Patient, Dealing with Hospitals, Health Insurance, Medicare, and More
American Bar Association
Oct 2001 · Random House Reference
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About this ebook
The ABA Complete and Easy Guide to Health Care Law is a comprehensive guide to understanding your rights as a patient and knowing how to move through the health care system. This guide allows you to understand issues about health care to the fullest. Among the issues covered are:
Patients’ Rights: Confidentiality, Privacy, and the Patient’s Bill of Rights; Emergency Care; Informed Consent
Paying for Medical Care: Insurance and Managed Care; COBRA
Reproduction: Assisted Reproductive Technology; Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Pregnancy; Sterilization; Abortion
People with Disabilities: Pregnancy; Confidentiality and Disclosure; Vaccinations; Mandatory Testing; Denoting Tort Liability; Quarantine
Nursing Homes: Choosing a Nursing Home; Paying for Long-Term Care; Medicaid Planning; Alternative Care and Living
Regulating Medical Professionals: Licensing of Doctors, Nurses, and Hospitals; Medical Malpractice; Research on Humans
Death and Dying: Right to Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment; Hospices; Donating Your Organs; Assisted Suicid
Patients’ Rights: Confidentiality, Privacy, and the Patient’s Bill of Rights; Emergency Care; Informed Consent
Paying for Medical Care: Insurance and Managed Care; COBRA
Reproduction: Assisted Reproductive Technology; Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Pregnancy; Sterilization; Abortion
People with Disabilities: Pregnancy; Confidentiality and Disclosure; Vaccinations; Mandatory Testing; Denoting Tort Liability; Quarantine
Nursing Homes: Choosing a Nursing Home; Paying for Long-Term Care; Medicaid Planning; Alternative Care and Living
Regulating Medical Professionals: Licensing of Doctors, Nurses, and Hospitals; Medical Malpractice; Research on Humans
Death and Dying: Right to Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment; Hospices; Donating Your Organs; Assisted Suicid
About the author
The AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION is the country’s best source of legal expertise and authoritative information. Presented in plain, everyday language, The ABA Complete and Easy Guide to Health Care Law is the definitive legal reference for everyone who wants and deserves to understand their legal rights.
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