An introduction to negligence for health professionals [digital video].

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file, 27 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color

Abstract:

Health professionals may face an action in negligence if a patient suffers damage and the delivery of the health care was below the expected standard for the ordinary reasonable practitioner. Four legal cases have been dramatised to illustrate the elements a plaintiff needs to establish to bring a successful action in negligence. The dramatised cases are: --Donoghue v. Stevenson [1932] All ER 1. --Rogers v. Whitaker (1992) 175 CLR 479. --Peters v. Minister of Health as the Hawthorn Hospital and Stagg (unreported WA District Court, 9, 10 April 1980 No 3109/78). --Barnett v. Chelsea and Kensington Hospital Management Committee [1969] 1 QB 428.

General Note:

A video from ECUs archive of documentaries and teaching films.

Technical Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subject Term:

Medical personnel -- Malpractice.

Negligence.

Medical protocols.

Negligence -- legal aspects.

Language:

English

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