MEDICAL ASSISTANT - LEGAL
CONSIDERATIONS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Emancipated minor - ANSWER A 17-year-old serving in the armed forces
Noncompliant - ANSWER A patient who refuses needed care, such as a cancer patient who will not
complete a series of chemotherapy
Negligence - ANSWER The failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would
exercise in similar circumstances
Plaintiffs - ANSWER Persons who bring charges in a civil case
Agents - ANSWER Medical assistants are _________ of their employers
Implied consent - ANSWER A patient tilts her head back and opens her eyes wide for instillation of
medicated eye drops from a medical assistant without any verbal instructions to do so
Malpractice - ANSWER Professional negligence
Subpoena - ANSWER Court order
Defendants - ANSWER Persons against whom charges are brought
Slander (example) - ANSWER A medical assistant writes in the patient's record, "Jim Marshall is a
ruthless, rude man who is very full of himself. Be careful around him."
Liable (example) - ANSWER A patient says loudly in the reception area of Inner City Health Care, filled to
capacity with waiting patients, "Dr. Reynolds should retire. I know he's not up on the latest medical
techniques."
, Minor - ANSWER A 17-year-old student who lives with his or her parents
Risk management - ANSWER Actions that make the medical assistant and the employer less vulnerable
to litigation
Litigation - ANSWER Lawsuit
Expressed contract - ANSWER Written or verbal contract that describes exactly what each party in the
contract will do
Duty (duty of care), derelict (breach of duty of care), direct cause (legally recognizable injury that occurs
as a result of breach of duty), damage (wrongful activity) - ANSWER List and define the four D's of
negligence
Battery - ANSWER The unauthorized touching of one person by another
Informed consent - ANSWER Covers the relationship between providers and their patients
"The thing speaks for itself" - ANSWER "Res ipsa loquitur" means
Patients control their own health care decisions - ANSWER The Patient Self-Determination Act says that
"Providers are responsible for their employees' actions" - ANSWER Respondeat superior is the Latin word
that means
No longer needs treatment - ANSWER A provider is legally bound to treat the patient until the patient
Administrative law - ANSWER
Title 7 civil rights - ANSWER 15 or more employees, can not discrimination baise on sex, creed, national
status, orign, color, religion
CONSIDERATIONS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Emancipated minor - ANSWER A 17-year-old serving in the armed forces
Noncompliant - ANSWER A patient who refuses needed care, such as a cancer patient who will not
complete a series of chemotherapy
Negligence - ANSWER The failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would
exercise in similar circumstances
Plaintiffs - ANSWER Persons who bring charges in a civil case
Agents - ANSWER Medical assistants are _________ of their employers
Implied consent - ANSWER A patient tilts her head back and opens her eyes wide for instillation of
medicated eye drops from a medical assistant without any verbal instructions to do so
Malpractice - ANSWER Professional negligence
Subpoena - ANSWER Court order
Defendants - ANSWER Persons against whom charges are brought
Slander (example) - ANSWER A medical assistant writes in the patient's record, "Jim Marshall is a
ruthless, rude man who is very full of himself. Be careful around him."
Liable (example) - ANSWER A patient says loudly in the reception area of Inner City Health Care, filled to
capacity with waiting patients, "Dr. Reynolds should retire. I know he's not up on the latest medical
techniques."
, Minor - ANSWER A 17-year-old student who lives with his or her parents
Risk management - ANSWER Actions that make the medical assistant and the employer less vulnerable
to litigation
Litigation - ANSWER Lawsuit
Expressed contract - ANSWER Written or verbal contract that describes exactly what each party in the
contract will do
Duty (duty of care), derelict (breach of duty of care), direct cause (legally recognizable injury that occurs
as a result of breach of duty), damage (wrongful activity) - ANSWER List and define the four D's of
negligence
Battery - ANSWER The unauthorized touching of one person by another
Informed consent - ANSWER Covers the relationship between providers and their patients
"The thing speaks for itself" - ANSWER "Res ipsa loquitur" means
Patients control their own health care decisions - ANSWER The Patient Self-Determination Act says that
"Providers are responsible for their employees' actions" - ANSWER Respondeat superior is the Latin word
that means
No longer needs treatment - ANSWER A provider is legally bound to treat the patient until the patient
Administrative law - ANSWER
Title 7 civil rights - ANSWER 15 or more employees, can not discrimination baise on sex, creed, national
status, orign, color, religion
