Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals

Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, 2nd Edition
George D. Pozgar, MBA, CHE, Nina Santucci, JD, Legal Review, John W. Pinnella, MD, DDS, Medical Review

2nd Edition

Softbound: 462 pages
ISBN 0763764736
9780763764739
Jones & Bartlett
June 2009
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Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals is a comprehensive reference to the questions of right and wrong for the leader, practicing health professional or student.

This book will provide the reader with a strong foundation to build upon to help in the understanding of ethical dilemmas. The reader will learn how to evaluate and determine the rightness or wrongness of alternative courses of action when things are just not always what they seem.

Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals is an important and practical guide to aide in the resolution of ethical dilemmas with legal implications. Ethics in the health care setting is about doing the right thing. It involves recognizing ethical dilemmas and appropriately addressing them. This book:

This book starts with the premise that to act in an ethical manner, means to engage in conduct according to the acceptable principles of right and wrong. Topics covered include:

The author’s objective is to provide the reader with the background knowledge necessary to understand that ethics is a manner of using integrity based decisions in order to determine what actions need to be taken when faced with common health care dilemmas. Special features of this book include:

George D. Pozgar, MBA, CHE, is President of his own consulting firm, Gp Health Care Consulting, in Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. Pozgar has consulted, been an instructor in ethics, and surveyed and reviewed ethical issues as part of the survey process in more than 600 hospitals across the nation. His experience as a hospital administrator, health care surveyor, educator, consultant, and author has served him well in preparation for this text Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals. Mr. Pozgar has served on the Editorial Board of The Health Care Supervisor and has authored all nine editions of Legal Essentials of Health Care Administration, as well as Jones and Bartlett’s Long Term Care and the Law, and Case Law in Health Administration.

Nina M. Santucci, JD, a graduate of the Jacob Fuchsburg School of Law, is presently General Counsel of the Windermere Group in Annapolis, Md. Prior to this position Ms. Santucci was the General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Program. In that capacity, Ms. Santucci also served as the designated ethics official. She went to the Justice Department from the Suffolk County, New York, District Attorney’s Office where she serve as Bureau Chief of White Collar Crime and as Deputy Bureau Chief in Family Crime. Those roles provided her with extensive investigated and prosecutorial experience in the areas of: child abuse; large scale embezzlements; and, complex computer and business crimes and scams. Moreover, she has dealt extensively with frauds perpetrated against health care providers and insurance companies. Her comprehensive background includes more than 12 years of teaching in the classroom setting. She was spokesperson of the Suffolk County Anti-Welfare Fraud Strike Force and chaired a state task force on elder abuse. In that capacity she drafted a bill that would make any financial exploitation or physical abuse of a vulnerable adult a criminal offense. She has lectured on that topic to senior citizen groups, the general public, and to state and local officials, in addition to giving keynote addresses at a variety of conferences. She has written in the areas of health law, identity theft, computer crime, corporate governance, and business ethics.