[PDF] First Do No Harm

• Author : Professor Sheila A M McLean
• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Release Date : 2013-02-28
• ISBN : 9781409496199

This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field. It has also been compiled as a lasting testimony to the work of one of the most eminent scholars in the area, Professor Ken Mason. The collection marks the academic crowning of a career which has laid one of the foundation stones of an entire discipline. The wide-ranging contents and the standing of

• Author : Mary B. Anderson,Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : 1555878342

Introduction to part 2

• Author : Stephen G. Ray
• Publisher : Fortress Press
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : 0800634977

Among the evils addressed by Christian theology, says Stephen Ray, must be the evil perpetuated by its own well-meant theologies. His important project examines the downside of the category of social sin, especially in theologians' use of destructive stereotypes that have kept Christians from realizing and engaging the most pervasive social evils of our time-racism and anti-Semitism. To make his case, Ray examines problematic ways in which several theologians describe the reality of social evil. "Theologians," he contends, "often unwittingly

• Author : J. Kenyon Rainer
• Publisher : Random House Incorporated
• Release Date : 1987
• ISBN : UCLA:31158012081252

The author traces his development as a neurosurgeon--from his days at medical school, to the drudgery of internship, the slavery of residency, and finally into private practice--and provides a personal perspective of his craft

• Author : Terrence Sullivan,Patricia M. Baranek
• Publisher : UBC Press
• Release Date : 2011-11-01
• ISBN : 9780774844161

Is there a crisis in Canadian health care? While the establishment of the Canadian health care system is widely considered a triumph of citizenship, after four decades the national program is in a fragile state marked by declining public confidence. In First Do No Harm, Sullivan and Baranek provide a concise introduction to the fundamentals of health care in Canada and examine various ideas for reforming the system sensibly. Arguing that administrators and policymakers should follow Hippocrates' dictum "first do

• Author : Milton Wolf, M.D.
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release Date : 2011-04-19
• ISBN : 9780062094261

New from Broadside Books' Voices of the Tea Party. The discussion what role—if any—the government should play in regulating and dictating the delivery of health care in the United States has become ground zero in the much larger age-old struggle between statism and individual liberty. Personifying this struggle is the conflict between the big government schemes of President Barack Obama and the free market principles of the President's own cousin, the private practice physician Milton R. Wolf, M.

• Author : Christina McDonald
• Publisher : Gallery Books
• Release Date : 2021-02-16
• ISBN : 9781982142612

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Behind Every Lie and The Night Olivia Fell comes an unforgettable and heart-wrenching novel about the lengths one woman will go to save her son. Emma loves her life. She’s the mother of a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmate—a loyal and loving police detective—and has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital. But everything comes crashing down when her son, Josh, is diagnosed with a rare

• Author : Fiorella De Maria
• Publisher : Ignatius Press
• Release Date : 2022-07-05
• ISBN : 9781681491417

When a British emergency room doctor saves the life a woman who apparently attempted suicide, he is accused of committing a crime and stands trial. Not only is Dr. Matthew Kemble's medical practice at risk, but also his liberty. If he is found guilty of trespassing on a woman's right to die, he could go to jail. The novel Do No Harm exposes the dangers faced by conscientious doctors in Britain. Dr. Kemble's decision to treat a patient in defiance

• Author : Angel M. Garcia, M.D.
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release Date : 2010-06-04
• ISBN : 9781450093347

Angel M. Garcia, M.D. gives readers an honest look from the inside into the health care system. Do No Harm: Saving our Health Care System reveals what is truly happening in the US health care system today. Dr. Garcia provides an engaging book that shows how fighting the establishment to defend patient’s rights can cause problems and hardships. The author provides insight and expert advice to patients, physicians, and lawmakers on changes that will enhance patient care, the

• Author : L. V. Hay
• Publisher : Orenda Books
• Release Date : 2018-06-15
• ISBN : 9781912374229

Lily has a fresh new start when she marries Sebastian, but her controlling ex-husband soon makes an appearance, and soon she’s fighting for her marriage ... and her life. A startling, twisty psychological thriller from bestselling author Lucy V Hay. ‘Well written, engrossing and brilliantly unique’ Heat ‘Prepare to be surprised’ Closer ‘A claustrophobic and complex read’ CultureFly ‘Sharp, confident writing’ Peter James ____________________ Till death do us part... After leaving her marriage to jealous, possessive oncologist Maxwell, Lily and her

• Author : Larry Karp
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Release Date : 2011-09-30
• ISBN : 9781615951055

The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past.... Martin Firestone can't figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad he'd been accepted to medical school. Then, Leo tells Martin a story about his own father, Dr. Samuel Firestone, an extraordinarily gifted doctor and a living legend in the small city of Hobart, NJ, but a man

• Author : Marie Fortune
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release Date : 1998-10-01
• ISBN : 0826411282

This work is aimed at those caught somewhere in the middle between those for whom only heterosexual and monogamous marriage, or "anything goes," are paradigms of suitable behaviour and intimate relationships. Ethicist and Christian Marie Fortune explores what it means to be in an intimate relationship today, surrounded as we are by domestic violence and continued silencing of women's voices.

• Author : Sigrid Mehring
• Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
• Release Date : 2014-11-28
• ISBN : 9789004279162

In First Do No harm: Medical Ethics in International Humanitarian Law Sigrid Mehring provides a comprehensive overview of the legal and ethical framework guiding physicians in armed conflict. Due to its timeliness, the book is invaluable to practitioners and legal scholars alike.

• Author : Henry Marsh
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release Date : 2014-03-13
• ISBN : 9780297869887

'Enthralling' GUARDIAN 'Incredibly absorbing ... astonishingly candid' Bill Bryson Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; Duff Cooper Prize; Wellcome Book Prize; Guardian First Book Award; and Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that

• Author : Carol Topolski
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release Date : 2011-01-27
• ISBN : 9780141966847

Do No Harm is a chilling psychological thriller from the author of Monster Love, Carol Topolski. What happens when someone whose job it is to do good is secretly bad? Everyone knows about Virginia: about her stellar reputation as a gynaecologist; about her commitment to her women patients. But who knows about the knives? Everyone knows about Faisal too: about his gentle charm and his family; about his brilliance in the operating theatre. But who knows he's a traitor? And