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25 Cards in this Set
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Accountable under the law?
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Liable
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The legal obligation of health care workers to patients and, sometimes nonpatients?
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Duty of care.
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The level of care expected of a doctor in carrying out his/her professional duties?
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Standard of care.
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The act of holding information in confidence and not to be released to unauthorized persons?
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Confidentiality.
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Information held confidential within a protected relationship?
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Privileged communication.
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The performance of a totally wrongful and unlawful act?
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Malfeasance
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The performance of a lawful act in an illegal/improper manner?
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Misfeasance
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The failure to act when one should?
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Nonfeasance
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Name the 4 D's of Negligence?
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1.Duty
2.Derelict 3.Direct cause 4.Damages |
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This means the person charged with negligence owed a duty of care to the accuser?
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Duty
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The means the health care provider breached the duty of care to the patient?
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Derelict.
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The means the breach of the duty of care to the patient was a direct cause of the patient's injury?
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Direct Cause.
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This means there is legally recognizable injury to the patient?
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Damages.
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Means "The thing speaks for itself"; also known as the doctrine of common knowledge. Under this doctrine no expert witnesses need be called?
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res ipsa loquitur
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Monetary awards sought by plaintiffs in lawsuits?
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Damages.
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The failure to act when one should?
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Nonfeasance
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State statutes that allow a person's beneficiaries to collect for loss for the deceased from earnings of negligent lawsuit?
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Wrongful death statutes.
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Issued by the clerk of the court and is delivered with a copy of the to defendent?
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Summons
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Legal document requiring the recipient to appear as a witness in court/or to give a deposition?
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Subpoena
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Sworn testimony given and recorded outside the courtroom during the pretrial phase a case?
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Deposition
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Written set of questions requiring written answers from a plaintiff or defendant under oath?
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Interrogatory
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Legal doc. requiring the recipient to bring certain written records to court to be used as evidence in a lawsuit?
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Subpoena duces tecum
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Statements sworn to under oath by witnesses testifying in court and giving depostions?
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Testimony
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Methods of settling civil disputes between parties using mediators/arbitrators without going to court?
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Alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
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Name 3 areas of liability for which a employer/physician is responsible?
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1. Building & Grounds
2. Automobiles 3. Employee Safety |
