Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics for Ambulatory Care

-- Vignettes dramatize the real-life significance of abstract legal and ethical principles
-- All legal concepts and laws pertinent to the medical practice setting are presented clearly and logically
-- Managed care and health care reform have been woven throughout the text
-- All legal issues updated to reflect the latest decisions
-- All ethics chapters revised to reflect most current events
-- An important chapter added -- A Cultural Perspective for Ambulatory Health Care
-- New pedagogical elements include boxes with definitions, supplementary information, and scenarios
-- Contains well-tested, useful pedadogical devices: learning objectives, definitions, summaries, references, and end-of-chapter questions