Exam 6: Professional Liability and Medical Malpractice

The statute of limitations for a case begins to run

Responsibility for action in employment is ultimately assigned to the

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

Performing a wrong and illegal act is considered

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

Negligence is composed of four elements:

The standard of care for physicians and other healthcare professionals is determined by

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

The only health professional who is not usually employed by the physician is the

The reasonable person standard refers to the

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

To win a wrongful death case, the plaintiff must prove

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

A/An important reason for arbitrations) of civil cases is to save

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

Res judicata means

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

Assumption of risk is the legal defense

Deliberate concealment of the facts from a patient is

Monetary awards by a court to a person who has been harmed in an especially malicious or willful way are