California Physician's Legal Handbook
The 2009 California Physician's Legal Handbook offers more than 4,500 pages of comprehensive legal information including current laws, regulations, and court decisions related to medical practice in California.
Chapters include:
- ADA/Discrimination
- Adverse Events: Patient Safety and Infection Control
- Advertising
- AIDS/HIV
- Allied Health Professionals
- Ancillary Services
- Antitrust
- Business Prohibitions/Disclosure
- Clinical Laboratories
- Consent
- Death/Organ Donation
- Drug Prescribing/Dispensing
- Drug Testing
- eMedicine/HIPAA
- Emergency Transfer
- Expert Witness Issues
- Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment
- Fraud and Abuse (2 chapters)
- Managed Care (4 chapters)
- Medical Board (2 chapters)
- Medical Practice (2 chapters)
- Medical Records (3 chapters)
- Medical Staffs
- Medi-Cal & Medicare
- OSHA/Office Safety
- Outpatient Facilities
- Peer Review
- Physician-Patient Relationship
- Professional Liability
- Reimbursement (3 chapters)
- Reporting Requirements (2 chapters)
- Reproductive Issues
- Warning Obligations
- Workers' Compensation
The handy CD provides the following enhancements:
- fully searchable content
- hyperlinks that let you navigate within the CD-Rom and onto the Web
- Hyperlinks to Findlaw for access to the cited court cases
Testimonials:
“CPLH is an invaluable tool to get quick answers to complicated legal research questions.” Rene A. Richards, Medical Malpractice Defense Attorney, Hassard Bonnington, LLP.
“The CPLH is simply the single most helpful thorough tool I use to do my job. I have been able to discontinue a variety of my other CLE materials.” Pauline Fox, General Counsel, Permanente Foundation, LLC.
CPLH 2009 is produced through the generous support of our partners:
- NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company
- The Doctors Company
- CAP-MPT
- Medical Insurance Exchange of CA
