Coles Medical Practice in New Zealand

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Chapter 1	Good medical practice: a guide for doctors
Chapter 2	The organisation of medical services in New Zealand
Chapter 3	How medical practice standards are set by legislation: The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act
Chapter 4	How medical practice standards are set by legislation: other legislation
Chapter 5	Accident compensation
Chapter 6	The psychiatric patient and the law
Chapter 7	The doctor patient relationship
Chapter 8	Māori health
Chapter 9	Pacific peoples in New Zealand
Chapter 10	Asian people in New Zealand
Chapter 11	Cultural competence and patient-centred care
Chapter 12	Informed consent
Chapter 13	The medical record
Chapter 14	Medicine and the internet
Chapter 15	Working with others
Chapter 16	Doctors in other roles
Chapter 17	Doctors' health
Chapter 18	Assessing doctors' performance
Chapter 19	Code of Ethics
Chapter 20	The doctor who uses complementary and alternative medicine
Chapter 21	The pharmaceutical industry and the profession
Chapter 22	Error in medical practice
Chapter 23	The role of the Health and Disability Commissioner and the Code of Rights
Chapter 24	The disciplinary process: the Professional Conduct Committee and the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal

Appendix A	Medical Council of New Zealand: statements and guidelines
Appendix B	Take our word for it: colloquial expressions in New Zealand
Appendix C	Common abbreviations
Index	Index

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