ABSTRACT

This book provides insight into some of the problems and pitfalls encountered in current medical practice. It helps lawyers to commission an expert witness to write a medical report and to interpret it, using their greater knowledge and a better understanding of the practice of medicine.

chapter 1|15 pages

Basic medicine: physiology

chapter 3|10 pages

Emergency medicine

chapter 5|12 pages

General anaesthesia

chapter 6|9 pages

Cardiac surgery

chapter 7|16 pages

Abdominal surgery

chapter 8|8 pages

Oncology

chapter 9|12 pages

Gynaecology

chapter 10|16 pages

Midwifery and obstetrics

chapter 11|8 pages

Paediatrics

chapter 12|6 pages

Paediatric surgery

chapter 13|10 pages

Orthopaedics

chapter 14|17 pages

Neurology

chapter 15|7 pages

Psychiatry