Surgical Technology Chapter 2
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obligation to disclose details for evaluation; commonly used to mean "to be held
responsible for"
✓ Accountability
voluntary statement of facts sworn to be true before an authority
✓ Affidavit
statement one expects to prove true
✓ allegation
in good faith or innocently
✓ bona fide
all legal decisions reported on a given legal subject
✓ case law
first pleading filed by plaintiff's attorney in a negligence action
✓ compliant
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in criminal cases, the person accused of the crime; on civil matters, the person or
organization
✓ defendant
method of pretrial discovery in which questions are answered under oath
✓ deposition
jurisdiction is given to federal courts in cases involving the interpretation and
application of the us constitution, acts of congress and decisions.
✓ federal law
court-appointed protector for an individual incapable of making his or her own
decisions
✓ Guardian
injury resulting from the activity of health care professionals
✓ iatrogenic injury
formal written accusation from a grand jury
✓ indictment
group of citizens who decide the outcome of a criminal or civil trial
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✓ jury
taking another's property without consent
✓ larceny
principles that have evolevd and continue to evolve on the basis of court decisions
✓ law, common
any law prescribed by the action of a legislature
✓ law, statutory
obligation to do or not to do something
✓ liability
obligation to do or not do something that is the responsibility of the corporate body
✓ liability, corporate
obligation by the individual to do or not do something
✓ liability, personal
professional misconduct that results in harm to another; negligence of a professional;
the following definitions interrelate with malpractice
✓ malpractice
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