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Product Description This book uses 20 practical scenarios to tease out and provide a clear understanding of the legal and ethical issues in blood transfusion practice that confront clinicians on a daily basis. The authors have contributed a great wealth of knowledge to this book from their own experiences for which regular physician and lawyer trainings seldom prepare. Take-home messages elegantly summarise the key points. This book will interest medical practitioners, medical students, nurses, lawyers, patients and the general reader. Review It is a pleasure to commend this book. The clinical case scenarios were particularly good and appropriate... It should succeed in its mission of giving 'the right blood to the right patient for the right reason'... This book should find a place for itself on the shelves of every medical library. --Professor Ong Yong Yau, President, Singapore Medical Council About the Author Catherine Tay is an Associate Professor lecturing law in the Business School of the National University of Singapore (NUS). She also supervises fourth-year medical students at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. A/Prof Tay is a barrister-at-law (of Lincoln's Inn, United Kingdom) and an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. She is the author of 31 law books, and has published ethics and legal articles in leading and international academic peer-reviewed journals. Tien Sim Leng is a Senior Consultant Haematologist at the Departments of Haematology and Pathology, Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He is Head of the Blood Bank and Cytogenetics, and Director of the SGH Haemophilia Centre. He is also Clinical Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University. A/Prof Tien is Chairman of the SGH Blood Transfusion Committee and has published over 50 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.