True or False
True or False: Burnout is exhaustion from excessive workloads.
What is True?
This term means someone who enters a property illegally.
What is a trespasser?
Any act or omission by a physician during treatment of a patient that deviates from accepted norms and causes injury. (Hint: there is a greater duty of care, more than reasonable person standard)
What is Malpractice?
One negative consequence from malpractice lawsuits includes doctors staying away or avoiding ___________ cases.
What is difficult or complex?
Nonverbal communication means using this to communicate.
What is body language?
True or False: A peer review is completed by an expert witness only.
What is False?
This term means conforming to professionally proper behavior.
What is ethical?
This is the first element of a malpractice case that must be proven. There was a ___________________________.
What is a doctor-patient relationship?
These state laws encourage trained professionals to stop at accident scenes. They provide immunity, as long as the helpers do not intentionally or recklessly cause further harm.
What are Good Samaritan laws?
True or False: Failure to inform the patient of potential drug reactions can result in a malpractice lawsuit.
What is True?
True or False: A latent defect is a hidden flaw that is not apparent by reasonable inspection.
What is True? [explanation: under strict liability, companies must disclose defects even if they're found later]
What is Contributory Negligence?
In order to have a civil malpractice lawsuit the patient must show that the doctor breached this.
What is duty to the patient?
Two immediate effects of increasing malpractice litigation are: ___________ malpractice insurance premiums and _________ number of carries willing to assume risk.
What is higher and lower?
An ethical or moral implication regarding _________________ includes a patient selectively remembering instructions from a doctor.
What is informed consent?
True or False: The standard for "grossly negligent" is there is less than a 40% chance that the careless act caused injury.
What is False? [answer: there is more than a 50% chance that the careless act caused injury]
This term means a person who is working against an individual or party. They are an opponent or an enemy, not an ally.
What is adversary?
An expert witness must come high ranks of the profession, labeled a professional by the AMA, or ____________ by __________.
True or False: Statute of limitations means that a case can be tried over any time frame.
What is False?
True or False: A pharmacopoeia is a doctor who prescribes various drugs for patients.
What is False? [answer: a book officially listing medical drugs along with information about their preparation and use]
True or False: Res ipsa loquitur means "let the master answer".
What is False? [answer: evidence showing that defendant's negligence can be reasonably inferred from the nature of the plaintiff's injury]
Affirmative duty means responding to an incident in a predetermined manner. It requires property inspection to ensure the premises is safe. The purpose is to protect who?
Who is an invitee?
Malpractice lawsuit usually arises from two factors:
1) The _____________, which is the patient injury
2) The ______________, which is the patient's feelings
What is Objective and Subjective?
Doctors are caught between protecting themselves by ordering tests and being sanctioned for ordering unnecessary procedures by professional _____________.
What are peer reviews? [definition: assessment of academic, professional, or scientific work by others who are experts in the same field]
Who is the doctor/physician?