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• Title:Adverse events, stress, and litigation : a physician's guide / Sara C. Charles, Paul R. Frisch ; illustrations by Ronald Bailey.
  
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• Author/Creator:Charles, Sara C.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Frisch, Paul R.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W44.1 .C437 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Physicians--Malpractice.
  Defensive medicine.
  Medical errors--Psychological aspects.
  Physicians--Psychology.
  Physicians--Job stress.
  
• Medical Subjects: Malpractice.
  Adaptation, Psychological.
  Physicians--psychology.
  Stress, Psychological.
  
• Description:xii, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index.
  
• ISBN:0195171489 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Prologue - four days in the nineties : the making of a defendant
  1. Adverse events : a basis for litigation
  2. Adverse events : what we feel and why
  3. Disclosure after an adverse event
  4. Adverse events : what physicians can say about them
  5. interim : between the event and the lawsuit
  6. complaint : a prelude to litigation
  7. Meeting the lawyers
  8. Coping with the stress associated with litigation
  9. Discovery : gaining a foothold for the defense
  10. To settle or not to settle
  11. trial
  12. Case over : what's next?
  13. Closing arguments.