Browsing by Author "Abdul, Tijani Fatai"

The advancement in technology plays a major role in the development of medical profession. Benefits of telemedicine include quick delivery of healthcare services to the people in rural communities, as well as the exchange of healthcare information services across different geographical locations in the world. It reduces healthcare costs, improves the dissemination of information and training for healthcare providers and patients. However, the encroachment of technology into medical practice creates a range of new opportunities and challenges for policy makers, lawyers, patients, healthcare providers and other stakeholders in the healthcare industry. Therefore, the drawbacks from the advent of this new technology cannot be overlooked. Further, the ethical and legal issues such as physician-patient relationship, patient informed consent, privacy, confidentiality and security, issues of licensing, duty of care, standard of care and conflict of laws affecting the development of telemedicine must be considered. This thesis analyses some of the advantages and disadvantages of telemedicine, as well as ethical and legal issues affecting telemedicine and recommends solutions to the problems. Also, the research analyses the views of the Islamic medical ethics that must be observed by healthcare providers for the benefit of Ummah.

Globally, medical profession is a career dedicated to the health service of humanity. It is a complex, risky, challenging and specialized field of learning where simple act, error or omission can be sufficient to trigger litigation against the practitioner. Medical profession is increasingly confronted with legal issues involving medical malpractice. In Nigeria, medical malpractice incidences have been on the increase in spite of the codes of medical ethics and the laws that regulate and guide the practice of medicine. These malpractices range from wrong diagnosis, poor infrastructure, failed surgery to failure to attend promptly to a patient who needs urgent attention. The researcher adopts the qualitative method and the findings revealed that medical malpractice in Nigeria is indeed on the rise. This research seeks to examine various causes of medical malpractice, the code of ethics and the criminal codes adopted in Nigeria. This research will also examine the legal liability of medical practice in both UK and Malaysia and learn from their experiences. The research also examines the views of the Islamic medical experts in the Malaysian context since the country has built up a reputation unique to serving the Ummah in the field of medicine.