This book focuses on healthcare practitioners, including Doctors, Doulas, Nurses, Midwives, Physiotherapists, Dentists, etc., and lawyers. And useful for families.
We all face challenges in life, this is a certainty. Challenges help us learn and grow, developing skills and compassion. They are all opportunities.
When we face challenges in our professional lives these affect our personal lives and vice versa. There are opportunities to change and improve systems that do not serve us. We want to create a world where our children and grandchildren can enjoy and thrive.
Imagine … you are accused of something and have to defend yourself. How would you do this and how effective would this be? This book is designed to give you effective ideas and information to consider before any allegations are made and how to manage an effective defence if or when needed for you and your colleagues. Allegations can come anytime. Possible allegations Employment, Regulatory, Civil and Criminal Law - e.g. medical negligence, dishonesty, manslaughter and even murder (see the Lucy Letby Case and my other book on this).
Information is power. Knowing your rights enables us to stand up for our collective and individual rights and freedoms. These are enshrined in the International Human Rights that will be explored below throughout this book. The power of knowing these rights helps us to ask the right questions, to pause before answering questions, to take legal advice, and to mount strong counter-arguments.