Medical Negligence: Non-Patient and Third Party Claims

Contents: Preface; Part I Setting the Context: The book: an overview; Establishing negligence in novel non-patient scenarios. Part II Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Physical Injuries to Non-Patients: Injuries to non-patients caused by physically-impaired or mentally-ill patients; Contraction or inheritance of disease by non-patients from patients; 'Bad Samaritan' liability: failing to assist non-patients; 'Good Samaritan' liability: intervening to assist non-patients. Part III Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Non-Physical Injuries to Non-Patients: Pure economic loss claims by 3rd parties associated with the patient; Pure psychiatric injury claims by 3rd parties associated with the patient; 'Fear-of-the-future' claims by non-patients; Wrongfully-accused 3rd parties in neglect or abuse cases; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.