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38 Cards in this Set
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right and wrong conduct is known as? |
Ethics |
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The most common type of medical tort liability is? |
Negligence |
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A person being sued is called the? |
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? |
Abandonment |
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An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another is? |
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? |
Reasonable care |
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Negligence by a professional person is called ? |
Malpratice |
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An act that violaters criminal law is called? |
Crime |
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The breaking of a law promise or duty is called ? |
Breach |
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The ability to see things from another persons point of view is? |
Emphaty |
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The time established for filing law suits is? |
Statue of limitations |
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Injuring the name and reputation of another peron by making false statement to a third person is? |
Defamation |
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Permission granted by a person volunta and hi his right mind is ? |
Consent |
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An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of some definite thing is ? |
Contract |
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Lack of physical or mental fitness is known as? |
Incompetence |
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The final decision of a court in an action or suit is? |
Judgment |
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Responsibility of an employer for the acts of an employee? |
Respondeat superior |
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A latin term signifying that a person is not of sound mind is? |
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) ? |
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? |
Medical grievance |
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Latin for "things donr; deeds"; the facts and circumstances attendant to the act in question would be called ? |
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? |
Deposition |
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A statute that enforces private right and liabilities, a differential from criminal law is called a ? |
Civil law |
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Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty is called? |
Breach of duty |
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A deliberate physical attack upon a person is called? |
Battery |
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Latin for " he who acts through another acts for himself " is called? |
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? |
Philosophy |
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A statement pgiven concerning some scientific, technical, or professional matter by an expert, such as a physician is called? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
Suspension |
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Latin for "things decided" that is , a matter already decided by judicial authority is called? |
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? |
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? |
Breach of contract |
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What license must a physician have to dispense, prescribe or administer controlled substances? |
Narcotic |
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Unauthorized disclosure of information regarding any patient to a tbird party may result in ? |
Invasion of privacy |