Medical Ethics and Law

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Healthcare professionals in clinical practice, field work or research will inevitably encounter ethical dilemmas and situations which may raise serious questions; and which will demand fair knowledge of relevant law. Our compact medical ethics and law bundle introduces key concepts and using landmark cases, focuses on issues most relevant to daily practice. This course will cover the following: - Introduction to medical ethics - Medical law governing the doctor-patient relationship - Legal implications of medical diagnosis, advice, and treatment - Medicolegal issues including the legal definition of death and current law around assisted dying, reproductive rights and rights of the unborn child, research on human subjects and organ donation - Landmark medicolegal cases in history Materials are available for Archive Learning after each class. Find more details here: https://www.lmm.org.uk/post/lmm-medical-ethics-and-law