Legal Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology
APGO Educational Objectives
Rationale: Legal obligations to protect patients' interests are effective only it understood and applied.
The student will be able to explain the following:
- Informed consent
- Right to refuse care
- Outcomes
- Options/alternatives
- Capacity to choose
- Surrogate decision makers
- Advance directives for health care
- Confidentiality
- Abandonment
- Contractual nature of medical benefits
- Fraud
- Risk management
- Local laws requiring the reporting of suspected child abuse and domestic violence
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