Analyse et prévention des risques médicolégaux en gynécologie, obstétrique, périnatalogie et pédiatrie

1. Everything you need to know about prevention, complaint management and preparing for a medical assessment
2. 60 highly varied and instructive clinical cases
3. Co-written by doctors and lawyers to make legal issues accessible to medical and paramedical professionals

This unique book brings together lawyers specializing in medical law and doctors, pediatricians and obstetrician-gynecologists, also trained in medical law. Their objectives are to enable :

1. caregivers to deal appropriately with the complaints lodged against them, by providing them with the legal tools they need to be proactive in their defense;
2. legal experts to understand that medical science is a “soft”, statistical science in perpetual motion, where 100% and 0% do not exist.

The first part is a legal refresher that will enable caregivers to understand the process of a complaint and the legal reasoning behind its analysis. It deals, among other things, with the assessment of loss of chance, the notion of adequate causality and the evaluation of third-party needs.

The second part reports on over 60 real-life clinical situations. Each of them has been the subject of a claim before a court, an expert appraisal and, for most of them, an opinion or judgment. They are illustrations of legal principles, such as the triptych “fault, injury, direct and certain causal link”.

The final section covers the prevention and management of complaints, the preparation of an expert opinion prior to the accedit, reflection on the professional recommendations on which experts often base their analysis of the case, and finally possible ethical dilemmas..