What is a person who is responsible for their own actions under the law.
100
What is a deposition that is taken in the _______ phase of a lawsuit?
What is interrogatory or pretrial discovery phase.
100
What is a legal document requiring the recipient to appeal as a witness in court or to give a depostion?
What is subpoena.
100
What is settlements of civil disputes between parties usinf nuetral mediators or arbitrators without going to court?
What is alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
100
What is confidentiality?
What is the act of holding information in confidence, not to be released to unauthorized individuals.
200
What is employee safety on the job.
What liability do physicians general have?
200
What is damages that may be collected by a deceased beneficiaries under this statute when a patient's death is judged due to negligence?
What is wrongful death.
200
A jury is selected in the ________ phase of a lawsuit?
What is trial phase.
200
What is statements sworn to under oath by witnesses testifying in court and giving depositions?
What is testimony.
200
What is the failure to act when one should?
What is nonfeasance.
300
What is "we are responsible for our actions, or our failure to act" under?
What is the Resonable Person Standard.
300
As employees, physicians have general liability for what?
What is the practice's building and grounds, automobiles, and employee safety.
300
What is accountable under the law?
What is liable.
300
What is physicians who have a duty of care first towards who?
What is their patients.
300
What is the level of performance expected of a health c are practictioner in carrying out his or her professional duties?
What is standard of care.
400
All medical professionals liabilty claims are classified in one of three ways, based upon the root word _________, which means "the performance of an act."
What is feasance.
400
What is the performance act in an illegal or improper manner?
What is misfeasance.
400
What is the performance of a totally wrongful and unlawful act?
What is malfeasance.
400
What is monetary awards sought by plaintiffs in lawsuits?
What is damages.
400
What is Damages.
What is awarded to a plaintiff when a defendant is found guilty of a tort?
500
***DOUBLE JEOPARDY***
During a physicans trial for negligence, the person who can establish the standard of care for the defendants area of medicine is the ________.
Expert witnesses
500
What is physicians generally are not required to break patient confidentiality in court, because legal concept that holds the physician-patient relationship as what?
What is privileged communication.
500
What is SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM?
What is a legal document requiring the recipient to bring certain records to court to be used as evidence in a lawsuit
500
What is RES IPSA LOQUITUR is the legal doctrine that says "the things speak for itself", it is also known as the doctrine of what?
What is common knowledge.
500
What are the four elemenets that must be present in a given situation to prove that a health care professional is guilty of negligence?