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dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-23T09:43:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-23T09:43:24Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2001 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Schembri Orland, L. (2001). Health care and the legal profession. Inter-professional ethics in health care, Malta. 37-46 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9990999325 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/27289 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The medical practitioner today is faced with a myriad of laws and regulations which aim at bringing health issues within their scope and effect. For the most part, such laws cannot be interpreted in a vacuum but, rather, must respect and reflect the guiding principles of medical ethics. Thus, the rights of a Doctor are qualified by the rights of his patient. These rights are not antagonistic but complementary in, for example, the principles of professional secrecy, of access to recent medical technology and treatment, or the freedom to exercise one's profession. From another perspective, the medical practitioner owes his patient a duty of care and a breach of this duty renders the practitioner liable to damages. A medical practitioner may (invariably) have contact with the law or legal institutions not only in the observance of rules and regulations affecting his practice, but also in the role of court expert, witness, or defendant. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Bioethics Consultative Committee | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Medical laws and legislation -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.title | Health care and the legal profession | en_GB |
dc.type | conferenceObject | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.bibliographicCitation.conferencename | Inter-professional ethics in health care | en_GB |
dc.bibliographicCitation.conferenceplace | Malta : 11/2000 | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Schembri Orland, L. | - |
Appears in Collections: | Inter-professional ethics in health care |
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