Who
The person that is being charged or sued.
What is a defendant?
A set of values you were raised with.
What are morals?
Is a crime and punishable by imprisonment of greater than one year.
What is a felony?
Res ipsa Loquitur
What is the thing speaks for itself?
Decisions made by judges in various courts that
become rule of law and apply to other cases
What is s precedent?
As an MA you will work under this persons license.
What is a Provider?
Another word for etiquette.
What are manners?
This will protect a person giving aid within their scope of practice in an emergency.
What is the Good Samaritan Act?
Let the boss answer.
What is Resondeat Superior?
These are focused on standards of behavior and the concept of right and wrong
What are ethics?
The individual or company that is filing a complaint or suing someone.
What is a plaintiff?
Permission from a person, either expressed or implied, for something to be done by another.
What is Consent?
Legally responsible or obligated.
What is Liable?
Res Judica
What is The thing has been decided?
Generally specifies one to six years, with two years most common
What is the Statute of Limitations?
Person who works to settle disputes without the parties going to court.
What is a Mediator?
Any deviation from the accepted medical standard of care causing injury to a patient.
What is an Unintentional Tort of Negligence?
Rule of conduct or action formally recognized as binding by a controlling authority.
What is Law?
Primum non nocere
What is Do no Harm?
The failure to act when one should.
What is non feasance?
A person guilty of a tort.
What is a Tortfeasor?
The duties/procedures that a person may and may not
perform under the guidelines of a specific license.
What is Scope of Practice?
The process by which a professional license
obtained in one state may be accepted as valid in other states by prior agreement without re-examination.
What is Reciprocity?
A subpoena for production of evidence, is a court summons ordering the recipient to appear before the court and produce documents.
What is subpoena duces tecum?
Performance of a totally wrongful and unlawful act?
What is malfeasance?