Duty to Warn in the Emergency Department: Three Medical Legal Cases That Illustrate Providers’ Broad Risk and Liability

This article presents three medical-legal cases that define a physician’s duty to warn and include caveats on medical practice within the scope of the law. Some physicians may not recognize that these legal and liability requirements extend not only to physical danger, but also to infectious disease...

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Published in:Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med
Main Authors: Pfaff, Rosemary, Berkeley, Ross P., Moore, Gregory, Heniff, Melanie
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020
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Medical Legal Case Reports
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434268/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32926668
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.5.47222
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