Duty to Warn in the Emergency Department: Three Medical Legal Cases That Illustrate Providers’ Broad Risk and Liability

This article presents three medical-legal cases that define a physician’s duty to warn and include caveats on medical practice within the scope of the law. Some physicians may not recognize that these legal and liability requirements extend not only to physical danger, but also to infectious disease...

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Published inClinical practice and cases in emergency medicine Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 285 - 288
Main Authors Pfaff, Rosemary, Berkeley, Ross, Moore, Gregory, Heniff, Melanie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Irvine University of California Digital Library - eScholarship 01.08.2020
University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
eScholarship Publishing, University of California
Subjects
Clinical medicine
Confidentiality
Convulsions & seizures
Domestic violence
Duty to warn
Emergency medical care
Family physicians
Legal medicine
Liability
Medical Legal Case Reports
Pediatrics
Physicians
Psychologists
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Summary:This article presents three medical-legal cases that define a physician’s duty to warn and include caveats on medical practice within the scope of the law. Some physicians may not recognize that these legal and liability requirements extend not only to physical danger, but also to infectious diseases, medical illness, and drug effects.
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ISSN:2474-252X
2474-252X
DOI:10.5811/cpcem.2020.5.47222