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Healthcare Law and Ethics is a plain-language guide to medical law and ethics. It helps all health professionals respond to the legal and ethical dilemmas they'll encounter in their chosen field. Written for the nonlawyer health professional, the title uses real legal cases and stimulating exercises to guide you through real applications of the material. The content is relevant to any medical setting, including medical offices, hospitals, clinics, laboratories, rehabilitation facilities and skilled-nursing facilities. The thoroughly updated 7th Edition has been renamed Healthcare Law and Ethics to reflect its focus on the entire healthcare team. New examples and content cover the needs of many more healthcare disciplines, from advance practice providers to medical assistants and emergency medical personnel.

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About our author Bonnie F. Fremgen, PhD, is a former associate dean of the Allied Health Program at Robert Morris College and was vice president of a hospital in suburban Chicago. She has taught medical law and ethics courses as well as clinical and administrative topics. Dr. Fremgen has broad interests and experiences in the healthcare field, including hospitals, nursing homes and physicians' offices. She currently has two patents on a unique circulation-assisting wheelchair. She is the author of Medical Terminology: A Living Language, also published by Pearson. Dr. Fremgen holds a nursing degree as well as a master's in healthcare administration. She received her PhD from the College of Education at the University of Illinois. She has performed postdoctoral studies in medical law at Loyola University Law School in Chicago. Dr. Fremgen has taught ethics at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana; University of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan; and Saint Xavier University, Chicago, Illinois.

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