Medicolegal Update in Obstetrics & Gynecology a Journey Towards Safer Health Care

In today’s era of consumerism, the perspective of society towards physicians has changed from life-savor to service provider. The privilege of being a physician has bestowed more liabilities than immunity. Providing the best possible care and acting in the best interest of the patient is not just enough. Physicians must regain the faith of their patients, without whom they could never transform from a disciple to a master of the noble medical profession. A physician, ignorant towards the medical laws, is no excuse in a Court of Law. Medical Laws have emerged as a vast specialization that regulates the day-to-day practice of clinicians. Quality health care is incomplete without confirming to the legal expectations. For a busy medical practitioner who finds legal expectations to be perplexing, Medicolegal Update in Obstetrics & Gynecology: A Journey Towards Safer Health Care is a humble presentation of the medicolegal knowledge in a lucid and easily understandable language. The book has thoroughly discussed essential medicolegal issues related to the specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology. This book has provided evidence-based guiding principles to tackle the actual medicolegal issues.

This authoritative treatise is written by distinguished experts who are authorities in their fields of specialization. We are confident that medical practitioners will find this book useful to

prevent as well as solve the medicolegal conflicts. We express our gratitude to all the authors and to the publisher for their cooperation. I am also grateful to all our readers for placing their reliance on us and for sharing our optimism. Feedback and suggestions from the esteemed readers is welcome and will be a boon to further improve the quality of this treatise.

This book is a “Ready Reckoner” to safely deal with the medicolegal issues related to the day-to-day practice in obstetrics and gynecology. It shall empower a busy clinician to medicolegal knowledge available at the tips for quick and safe remedy to medicolegal problems. This book presents essential and updated information on various medicolegal aspects involved in day-to-day clinical practice in the _eld of obstetrics and gynecology. Most of the pertinent medicolegal issues have been elaborated in the book. The book has presented “practice management strategies” for safe clinical practice. The book is multiauthored, and the chapters on various medicolegal issues are written by specialists who are well experienced in clinical as well as medicolegal domain. The book comprises 26 chapters divided into 8 sections. Simple and interesting presentation of complicated medicolegal matters. Problem-solving approach to the medicolegal problems for obstetricians and gynecologists. Medicolegal tips are provided for effective handling of medicolegal conflicts. References have been included with all the chapters.