Medical Office Management

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right and wrong conduct is known as?

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Ethics

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The most common type of medical tort liability is?

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Negligence

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A person being sued is called the?

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defendent

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The withdrawal of a physician from the care of a patient without reasonable notice of such discharge from the case by the patient is?

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Abandonment

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An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another is?

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Assault

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The health workers is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted reasonable as compared with fellow workers this is called?

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Reasonable care

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Negligence by a professional person is called ?

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Malpratice

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An act that violaters criminal law is called?

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Crime

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The breaking of a law promise or duty is called ?

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Breach

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The ability to see things from another persons point of view is?

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Emphaty

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The time established for filing law suits is?

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Statue of limitations

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Injuring the name and reputation of another peron by making false statement to a third person is?

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Defamation

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Permission granted by a person volunta and hi his right mind is ?

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Consent

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An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of some definite thing is ?

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Contract

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Lack of physical or mental fitness is known as?

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Incompetence

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The final decision of a court in an action or suit is?

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Judgment

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Responsibility of an employer for the acts of an employee?

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Respondeat superior

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A latin term signifying that a person is not of sound mind is?

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Non compos mentis

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A person who is no longer under care, custody, or supervision of a parent is called a ( n) ?

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Emancipated minor

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An impartial panel established to listen to and investigate patients complaints about medical care or excessive fees is called a _______________ committee?

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Medical grievance

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Latin for "things donr; deeds"; the facts and circumstances attendant to the act in question would be called ?

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Res gestae

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Testimony of a witness under oath and written down before trial for possible use when the case comes to trial is?

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Deposition

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A statute that enforces private right and liabilities, a differential from criminal law is called a ?

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Civil law

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Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty is called?

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Breach of duty

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A deliberate physical attack upon a person is called?

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Battery

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Latin for " he who acts through another acts for himself " is called?

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Qui facit per alium facit per se

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The branch of study of moral issues, questions, and problems arising in the practice of medicine and biomedical research is called?

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Philosophy

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A statement pgiven concerning some scientific, technical, or professional matter by an expert, such as a physician is called?

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Expert testimony

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A patient's failure to act prudently and reasonably, or doing that which a reasonable person would not do under sumilar circumstances is called?

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Contributory negligene

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Consent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of unpreventable results of the treatment is called?

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Assumption of risk

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Conduct,courtesy,and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professional are known as?

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Medical etiquette

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An intentional pervision of truth for the purpuse of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right is called?

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Fraud

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To interrupt or discontinue a suit temporarily with the intention or resumption at a later date, or to ask for a continuance is called?

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Suspension

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Latin for "things decided" that is , a matter already decided by judicial authority is called?

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Proximate cause

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The presumption or inference of negligence when an accident is otherwise unable to be explained. In terms of ordinary and known experience is called?

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Res ipsa loquitur

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Failure to achieve an agreed upon result , even when the highest degree of skills has been used, is called?

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Breach of contract

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What license must a physician have to dispense, prescribe or administer controlled substances?

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Narcotic

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Unauthorized disclosure of information regarding any patient to a tbird party may result in ?

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Invasion of privacy