Wrong Doing
Someone charged at me
What is Battery?
Replacing a failing organ with a healthy one.
What is a Transplant?
This official oversees the trial, rules on objections, and ensures courtroom procedures are followed.
What is Judge?
Tubes in the stomach area that process waste
What are Intestines?
This occurs when a healthcare professional causes harm by failing to meet accepted standards of care.
What is Medical Malpractice?
They are accused of law breaking
What is Defendant?
Medicine in a tube that you rub on an external injury
What is Ointment?
This part of a trial allows each side to outline what they believe the evidence will show.
What is Opening Statement?
The part of you that gives you the power to move.
What are Muscles?
This medical examination of a body is often used to determine cause of death in legal cases.
What is Autopsy?
Making a false statement that harms someone’s reputation
What is Defamation?
A long thin strip of material that is wrapped around an injured body part
What is Bandage?
This happens when a lawyer questions the other side’s witness.
What is Cross-Examination?
This organ helps regulate blood sugar and aids in digestion.
What is the Pancreas?
This U.S. law protects patient health information and limits who can access medical records.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
Disobeying or disrespecting court authority
What is Contempt of Court?
This treatment uses high-energy rays to destroy cancer cells.
What is Radiation Therapy?
This occurs when jurors cannot reach a unanimous decision.
What is Hung Jury?
Structure that carries signals between the brain and body.
What is the Spinal Cord?
A public health measure that can be legally enforced to prevent disease spread.
What is Quarantine?
When someone deliberately avoids knowing facts to escape liability
What is Willful Blindness?
Preventative medicine that might help prevent a disease later in life. Normally injected into the body
What is Vaccine?
This is the high standard of proof required to convict someone in a criminal case.
What is Reasonable Doubt?
This part of the eye detects light and sends signals to the brain.
What is the Retina?
These laws protect individuals who provide emergency medical help from being sued.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?