Chapter 50.Clinical Legal Issues
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For the clinician treating individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), legal issues are very common. The nature of how most TBIs occur often produces complex legal issues for clinicians who are treating TBI patients. Case studies of the behavioral and cognitive changes and struggles of TBI patients have been reported in the U.S. medical literature as far back as 1835, such as the onset of antisocial personality traits after frontal brain injury, particularly injuries within the orbitofrontal cortex (Benson and Blumer 1975). Because a clinician treating a TBI patient very likely will be engaged at some time to provide medical information or testimony to a court of law or administrative law body, it is worth reviewing contemporary ethical issues concerning neurological factors and the law (Jones et al. 2014).
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