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Medicine today is practiced within an expanding and evolving system of legal rights and obligations, patient protections, health care financing regulation, and standards of care. Thus, medical care can involve significant legal issues, including advance directives, capacity of patients to make health care decisions, confidentiality of medical information, and malpractice liability.
Last full review/revision October 2007 by Charles Sabatino, JD
Content last modified October 2007
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