78148 Law and Medicine
8cpRequisite(s): ( 78100c Postgraduate Legal Research OR ((102 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C04236 Juris Doctor OR 102 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C04250 Juris Doctor Master of Business Administration)))
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Anti-requisite(s): 76045 Medicine and Law AND 77734 Law and Medicine
Description
This subject deals with the interface between law and medicine. It provides a specialist examination of the issues which confront both health care providers and their patients in the context of continuing systemic and resource problems. These issues include the handling of complaints against health care professionals and the regulation of the professions, the duties of doctors and medical negligence, consent to treatment, access to medical records and confidentiality, and alternative or complementary medicine.
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