chap 6 med law and ethics

A general liability policy that covers any negligence on the part of the physician's staff would include:

a rider on the malpractice policy.

Submitting a dispute to a person other than a judge is called:

arbitration.

In a case in which a physician is being sued by a patient for malpractice, the most common defense by the physician is:

denial.

To prove dereliction of duty, a patient would have to prove the physician:

did not conform to the acceptable standard of care

The reasonable person standard refers to the:

duty of due care.

To obtain a judgment for negligence against a physician, the patient must be able to show:

duty, dereliction of duty, direct or proximate cause, and damages.

Liability for the consequences of an employee's actions committed in the scope of employment is assigned to the:

employer.

Deliberate concealment of the facts from a patient is:

fraud.

A health care professional can best protect his or her physician/employer from being held responsible for the professional's possible negligence by:

having a job description with clearly defined responsibilities, duties, and necessary skills. using extreme care when performing his or her job. carrying out only those procedures for which he or she is trained

A contract by which one person promises to compensate or reimburse another if he or she suffers a loss from a specific cause or a negligent act is:

liability insurance.

Performing a wrong or illegal act is considered:

malfeasance.

Professional misconduct or demonstration of an unreasonable lack of skill with the result of injury, loss, or damage to the patient is:

malpractice.

Failure to perform an action that a reasonable person would have performed in a similar situation is:

negligence

Coverage of the insured party for all injuries and incidents that occurred while the policy was in effect, regardless of when they are reported, is:

occurrence insurance.

The health professional who is not usually employed by a physician is the:

pharmacist

Assumption of risk is the legal defense that:

prevents the plaintiff from recovering damages if he or she had accepted a risk associated with an activity that led to the illness or injury.

Monetary awards by a court to a person who has been harmed in an especially malicious or willful way, and that may exceed the actual cost of the harm that was caused, are:

punitive damages.

The thing speaks for itself applies to the law of negligence and is the doctrine called:

res ipsa loquitur.

When an employer lends an employee to someone else and the employee commits negligence while working for that other person, the temporary employer, not the original employer, may be held legally responsible. This is called:

the borrowed servant doctrine

The legal relationship formed between two people when one person agrees to perform work for another person is called:

the law of agency.

To win a wrongful death case, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant's actions were:

the proximate cause of death.

Res judicata means:

the thing has been decided

A/An important reason for arbitration(s) of civil cases is to save:

time and money.

The standard of care to which physicians and other health care professionals are held is determined by:

what members of the same profession would do in a similar situation within the same geographic area.

The statute of limitations for a case begins to run:

when the injury is discovered