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Right and wrong conduct is known as
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C. Ethics
2.
The most common type of medical tort liability is
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A. Negligence
3.
A person being sued is called the
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D. Defendant
4.
The withdrwal of a physician from the care of a patient without reasonable notice of such discharge from the case by the patient is
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A. Abandonment
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An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another is
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A. Assault
6.
The time established for filing law suits is
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C. Statute of limitations
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The ability to see things from another person's point of view is
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A. Empathy
8.
The breaking of a law, promise, or duty is called
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C. Breach
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Negligence by a professional person is called
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C. Malpractice
10.
An act that violates criminal law is called
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A. Crime
11.
The health worker is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted reasonable as compared with fellow workers. this is called...
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D. Reasonable care
12.
A writ that commands a witness to appear at a trial or other proceeding and to give testimony is a
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C. Subpoena
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A wrong committed against another person or person's property is a
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C. Tort
14.
Holding or detaining a person against his will is
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A. False imprisonment
15.
A violation of a person's right not to have his or her name, photograph, or private affairs exposed of made public without gibing consent is
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A. Invasion of privacy
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A major crime for which greater punishment is imposed other than a misdemeanor is
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D. Felony
17.
One who institutes a lawsuit is
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A. Plaintiff
18.
A ______ is a leagal statement of how an individual's property is to be distributed after death.
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D. Will
19.
Information given by a patient to medical personnel which cannot be disclosed without consent of the person who gave it is______
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D. Privileged communication
20.
The rule of conduct made by a government body is
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B. Law
21.
Failure to do something that is reasonable person would do under ordinary circumstances that ends up causing harm to another person or a person's property is
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B. Negligence
22.
Permission granted by a person voluntarily and in his right mind is
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A. Consent
23.
Injuring the name and reputation of another person by aking false statements to a third person is
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A. Defamation
24.
An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of some definite thing is
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A. Contract
25.
Lack of physical or mentalfitness is known as
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D. Incompetence
26.
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the final decision of a court in an action or suit is
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C. Judgment
27.
Responsibility of an employer for the acts of an employee is
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C. Respondeat superior
28.
A latin term signifying that a person is not of sound mind is
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B. Non compos mentis
29.
A person who is no longer under the care,custody, or supervision of a parent is called an
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A. Emacvipated minor
30.
An impartial panel established to listen to and investigate patient's complaints about medical care or exvessive fees is called a _______ committee.
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B. Medical grievance
31.
Latin for "things done; deeds"; the facts and circumstances attendant to the act in question would be called...
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A. Res gestae
32.
Testimony of a witness under oath and written down before trial for possible use when the case comes to trial is
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A. Disposition
33.
A statute that enforces private right and iabilities, as differentaited from criminal law is called a
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B. Civil law
34.
Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty is called
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B. Breach of duty
35.
A deliberate physical attack upon a person is called
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B. Battery
36.
Latin for "he who acts through another acts for himself" is called
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B. Qui facit per alium facit per se
37.
The branch of study of moral issues, questions, and problems arising in the practice of medicine and in biomedical research is called
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A. Bioethics
38.
A statement giben concerning some scientific, tehnical, or professional matter by an expert, such as a physician is called_______
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B. Expert testimony
39.
Conduct, courtesy, and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professionals are known as_____
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D. Medical etiquette
40.
Consent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of unpreventable results of that treatment is ______
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A. Assumption of risk
41.
A patient's failure to act prudently and reasonably, or doing that which a reasonable person would not do under similar circumstances is called_____
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B. Contributory negligence
42.
Latin for "things decided" ----that is, a matter already decided by judicial authority is called______
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B. Res judicata
43.
Failure to achieve an agreed upon result, even when the highest degree of skill has been used, is called_______
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C. Breach of contract
44.
An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right is called________
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D. Fraud
45.
That which in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new independent cause, produces an event, and without which the injury would not have occurred is ______
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C. Proximate cause
46.
To interrupt or discontinue a suit temporarily with the intention or resumption at a later date, or to ask for a continuance is called a ________
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D. Suspension
47.
The presumption or inference of negligence when an accident is otherwise unable to be explained in terms of ordinary and known experience is called________
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A. Res ipsa loquitur
48.
A fraudulent signature is called
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D. Forgery
49.
Unauthorized disclosure of information regarding any patient to a third party may result in_____
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A. Invasion of privacy
50.
Medical research is often published in medical journals that are evaluated by members of the medical community through a process known as
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D. Peer review