Clinical Law for Clinical Practice

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Adults who refuse blood
2. Discussing the prospects of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
3. What should be disclosed when seeking consent
4. Deprivation in Essex
5. The first glimpse of a duty to warn?
6. Can a patient choose her surgeon?
7. Sentiments
8. Unwise decisions
9. Consulting relatives 
10. Doctrine of double effect
11. Needle Phobia
12. Candid over complications
13. Examining patients with their consent
14. Covert treatment
15. Can blood be compulsorily administered under the Mental Health Act 1983?
16. Genetic confidentiality
17. Refusing hospital discharge
18. Consent for a cannula
19. Changing direction in severe anorexia
20. Be informed; then disclose
21. Withdrawing treatment in a young man
22. The value of going to court
23. Articulating best interests
24. Loyal Friends
25. Apply to court?
26. Disclosing the miniscule risk when seeking consent
27. Obtaining consent
28. Deprivation of Liberty; the story so far
29. Falling from hospital property
30. Gross negligence manslaughter: Perhaps better, \"betrayal of trust\"?
31. Interpretation
32. A narrow dispute
33. A right to be told?
34. \"But all life is an experiment\"
35. Avoid discouraging patients from waiting to be treated
36. Mixed messages
37. It is for clinicians to identify foreseeable risks
38. Separating twins
39. Body modification
40. Seeking the approval of a court for paternity testing
41. Children refusing treatment
42. Can we rely on our Advance Decisions?
43. Is there a role for ‘next of kin’?
44. Preaching to patients
45. Deceiving patients
46. Determining incapacity
47. Reasons for refusing blood?
48. Justifying the termination of a pregnancy
49. The feasibility of a covert Caesarean section
50. Communicating risk: Words or numbers?
51. Stark compulsion in grave circumstances
52. Going to court too soon
53. Best interests in the absence of suffering
54. Patients value candour
55. Informed Consent & Informed Dissent: Two sides of a coin?
56. Parental consent for their child’s deprivation of liberty.
57. Vulnerable with capacity
58. Compulsory treatment for diabetes
59. Approving palliation
60. Acquiescence; not consent
61. Making clinical legal decisions