medico-legal

The reason why foreign residency programs aren't considered valid in the US is quality control, from both competency and medico-legal standpoints.

The term has been used in a medico-legal context in the past to define a person's mental age.

There are a few other reasons - doctors document every interaction partly for medico-legal reasons – just in case something happens.

The structure of hospitals as a medico-legal entity is a complicated business in most states.

I pay no malpractice insurance, but pay $400 annually to a non-profit society for medico-legal cover.

Most importantly, students have no concept of medico-legal consequences of mismanagement.

It's about controlled processes, highly auditable, very sharply optimised focused managing the medical (and medico-legal) risk at the expense of every other type of problem.

Awful because so much of the documentation you have to write has nothing to do with patient care, and more to do with defensive medico-legal CYA, and everything to do with the hospital getting reimbursed at the level it wishes to for each patient seen.

We will explore how assisted dying can affect both the patient and doctor; the nature of consent and limits of autonomy; the effects on society; the viability of a proposed model; and, perhaps most importantly, the potential need for the practice within our current medico-legal framework.