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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
One: Patients Rights
1. Confidentiality/Privacy and the Patient’s Bill of Rights: Your Guide to the Complicated Legal World of Medical Privacy
2. Emergency Care: You Have Rights to Emergency Care—Know How to Use Them
3. Informed Consent: How to Understand—: and Approve—: Your Treatment
Two: Paying for Medical Care: Your Options: From Insurance to HMOs and Government Programs
4. Insurance and Managed Care: A Quick Guide to the Rapidly Changing World of HMOs
5. Medicare and Medicaid: Government Programs to the Rescue—If You Qualify and Know How to Use Them
6. Cobra: Keeping Your Benefits for a While After Your Job Is Gone
Three: Reproduction: The Birds, the Bees, and the Deep Freeze
7. Assisted Reproductive Technology: Having Babies Ain’t What It Used to Be—and the Law Is Struggling to Catch Up
8. Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Pregnancy: Cases Raise Difficult Issues, Including the Monetary Value of a Child
9. Sterilization: Difficult Issues Involve Religion and Involuntary Procedures
10. Midwifery and Birthing Choices: Traditional Alternatives Face Legal Challenges
11. Abortion: A Deeply Felt Issue Continues to Spawn Litigation, Controversy
Four: People with Disabilities: A Surprisingly Large Category, Much Affected by the Law
12. People with Disabilities/AIDS: Read This Chapter to Learn About How the Law Protects You
13. Pregnancy: It’s a Fact of Life, a Great Blessing—and a Big Legal Topic
14. Confidentiality and Disclosure: From Disabilities to HIV-Positive Status, the Law Provides Privacy—but with Exceptions
15. Vaccinations: They’re a Public Health Boon, but Not Free from Defects—the Law Provides Some Guidance
16. Mandatory Testing: A Quick Look at a Very Controversial Question
17. Tort Liability: Your Guide to ADA Discrimination, “AIDSphobia,” and Other Civil Wrongs
18. Quarantine: An Old Public Health Measure Raises New Legal Issues
Five: Nursing Homes: Information to Help You Make the Right Choices
19. Choosing a Nursing Home: Tips on Making Sure That Your Loved Ones Will Be Well Treated
20. Paying for Long-Term Care: Planning Ahead for When You’re No Longer Able to Care for Yourself
21. Medicaid Planning: Some Suggestions on Qualifying for Medicaid
22. Alternative Care and Living: It’s Not Just Your Home or the Nursing Home Anymore
Six: Regulating Medical Professionals: The Law Tries to Protect You from Incompetence and Malpractice
23. Licensing of Doctors, Nurses, and Hospitals: It’s One of the Ways the State Tries to Protect You
24. Medical Malpractice: You Have Legal Recourse When Bad Medical Care Harms You
25. Research on Humans: Medical Advances Are Good—but How Can We Ensure That People Are Protected?
Seven: Death and Dying: How We Die Is Changing—and the Law Is Growing More Important in End-of-Life Choices
26. Your Right to Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment: You Clearly Have the Right—Know How to Use It
27. Hospice: How the Law Affects Care for the Terminally Ill
28. Donating Your Organs: Your Opportunity to Make the Gift of Life
29. Assisted Suicide: The Law Addresses a Highly Controversial Topic
30. Where Do You Go from Here?: The Best Places to Turn for More Information
Appendix A: Getting Help with Medicare Questions
Appendix B: Getting Help with Medicaid Questions
Appendix C: Health Care Advance Directive
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