Risk Management in Healthcare

As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of legalities on medical treatment. Physicians today are apprehensive about the threat of malpractice suits. Kapp explores the extent to which this fear is justified. He examines where physicians get their ideas about what the law requires and forbids, how physicians' perceptions of the law and medicine affect medical care, and whether these behavior manifestations benefit or hurt a physician's ability to practice ethically. Kapp then suggests ways medical professionals can resolve tension caused by conflicting demands and encourage more ethical care.

This guidebook provides an overview, interpretation, and analysis of the related issues of substance abuse and AIDS as they relate to the human resource professional and the management of the workplace. Klingner carefully details the effects these problems have on the way business is done, the costs of doing business, and the policies and practices of human resource management. The techniques and legal aspects of both drug and AIDS testing is thoroughly discussed, as well as such topics as employee assistance programs and working with unions.