This book describes the fundamentals of diseases of the ear, nose and throat and head and neck, to enable lawyers, and others advising on medical negligence issues, to understand its principles and practice. Attention is given throughout to the acceptable minimum standards of care in what is now an extensive speciality.
Numerous discussions of the legal issues are complemented by brief descriptions of actual medico-legal cases, most drawn from the authors own medico-legal practice. The complex anatomy of the region is described in outline and illustrated, to aid understanding.