Derived from the renowned multivolume International Encyclopaedia of Laws this convenient volume provides comprehensive analysis of the law affecting the physicianpatient relationship in Malta. Cutting across the traditional compartments with which lawyers are familiar medical law is concerned with issues arising from this relationship and not with the many wider juridical relations involved in the broader field of health care law. After a general introduction the book systematically describes law related to the medical profession proceeding from training licensing and other aspects of access to the profession through disciplinary and professional liability and medical ethics considerations and quality assurance to such aspects of the physicianpatient relationship as rights and duties of physicians and patients consent privacy and access to medical records.