Texas Jurisprudence High-Yield
***Good Samaritan laws are NO LONGER Protected If: - ANS-- CHARGE A FEE (ex: improve
to 1st elegance, or price pt or hospital)
- Gross NEGLIGENCE
- Caused the real emergency (ex: MVA)
- Practicing inside scope (ex: doc enables MVA sufferer, accurate samaritan regulation is in
impact if he did it in accurate faith)
- Pre-existing responsibility to deal with
- Contract with Patient
***What required tests are wanted for Pregnant female at 1st bodily exam and at beginning? -
ANS-Hepatitis B
HIV
Syphilis
four Aspects of the Patient-Physician Relationship - ANS-FIDUCIARY DUTY
- Duty of Trust
- Owed via Person of advanced understanding
CONSENSUAL
- NOT required to simply accept a affected person UNLESS it's an emergency
BEGINS WITH ACT OF DX OR TX
- NO dating = NO obligation to deal with
TERMINATION
- Patient's own selection
- Extinction of necessity
- Termination tactics
- Doc MUST provide WRITTEN notification and MEDICAL CARE for 30 days from dating cease
date and a LIST of med vendors if you want to begin Tx somewhere else
A DOCTOR need to do what clinical tests to NEWBORNS?*** - ANS-NEWBORN HEARING
EXAM
EYE PROPHYLAXIS for Ophthalmia Neonatorum
(Failure to accomplish that is Class B Misdemeanor)
PKU & Hypothyroidism
(Parents MUST consent for PKU/Thyroid)
A podiatrist desires who to co-admit a patient into the sanatorium?*** - ANS-A Physician!***
(normally internal medicine doc)
, All deaths of children less than WHAT AGE must be mentioned to JoP or Medical Examiner? -
ANS-6 years old***
Are you legally required to document Family Violence?*** - ANS-NO*** (except affected person
wants you to report it!)
Only required to document Elderly and Child Abuse
(Oral file straight away; Written report w/in 5 days)
Birth reviews need to be filed by using health practitioner or sanatorium within how many
days??*** - ANS-5 days***
Board Hearing Disciplinary Action
- what number of days to enchantment any selection?***
- if TMB reveals practice a risk to the public, what can they do?*** - ANS-Doc has 30 DAYS*** to
enchantment any selection given by using board hearing; may also supply probation except
licensee has felony conviction
- may additionally briefly SUSPEND immediately WITHOUT HEARING or NOTICE***
(if the TMB reveals the exercise a danger to the general public)
Child MUST be immunized as consistent with board of health agenda UNLESS mother and
father decline. Are Docs chargeable for injury as a result of vaccination or failure to vaccinate if
refused?*** - ANS-NO the medical doctors aren't chargeable for any side effects or injury from
vaccination or lack there of***
Conditions that PREVENT you from getting a Standard License - ANS-- License that is
RESTRICTED or SUSPENDED in ANOTHER nation
- Under investigation for FELONY
----if PENDING research, license is both SUSPENDED or RESTRICTED
----if CONVICTED, the license is suspended and CANNOT be reissued***
Do you have to have malpractice coverage to exercise in TX?*** - ANS-NO***
Doctor himself MUST notify TMB inside 30 days that they do no longer have coverage***
Examples of EXEMPLARY: PUNITIVE Damages for Malpractice*** - ANS-Damages offered as
penalty (FRAUD/MALICE)
2003 Tort Reform limits to GREATER of:
- TWICE financial damages + quantity of non-economic NOT > $750k OR
- $200k
Wrongful dying award restriction $500k/claimant no matter # of defendants or establishments
versus Damages that are Actual: Economic (misplaced wages/medical prices) or Actual:
Non-economic damages (pain/struggling)
Examples of Felonies*** - ANS-***
- SEXUAL ABUSE of Nursing Home or Mental Patient
- Practicing Medicine WITHOUT Valid License***
***Good Samaritan laws are NO LONGER Protected If: - ANS-- CHARGE A FEE (ex: improve
to 1st elegance, or price pt or hospital)
- Gross NEGLIGENCE
- Caused the real emergency (ex: MVA)
- Practicing inside scope (ex: doc enables MVA sufferer, accurate samaritan regulation is in
impact if he did it in accurate faith)
- Pre-existing responsibility to deal with
- Contract with Patient
***What required tests are wanted for Pregnant female at 1st bodily exam and at beginning? -
ANS-Hepatitis B
HIV
Syphilis
four Aspects of the Patient-Physician Relationship - ANS-FIDUCIARY DUTY
- Duty of Trust
- Owed via Person of advanced understanding
CONSENSUAL
- NOT required to simply accept a affected person UNLESS it's an emergency
BEGINS WITH ACT OF DX OR TX
- NO dating = NO obligation to deal with
TERMINATION
- Patient's own selection
- Extinction of necessity
- Termination tactics
- Doc MUST provide WRITTEN notification and MEDICAL CARE for 30 days from dating cease
date and a LIST of med vendors if you want to begin Tx somewhere else
A DOCTOR need to do what clinical tests to NEWBORNS?*** - ANS-NEWBORN HEARING
EXAM
EYE PROPHYLAXIS for Ophthalmia Neonatorum
(Failure to accomplish that is Class B Misdemeanor)
PKU & Hypothyroidism
(Parents MUST consent for PKU/Thyroid)
A podiatrist desires who to co-admit a patient into the sanatorium?*** - ANS-A Physician!***
(normally internal medicine doc)
, All deaths of children less than WHAT AGE must be mentioned to JoP or Medical Examiner? -
ANS-6 years old***
Are you legally required to document Family Violence?*** - ANS-NO*** (except affected person
wants you to report it!)
Only required to document Elderly and Child Abuse
(Oral file straight away; Written report w/in 5 days)
Birth reviews need to be filed by using health practitioner or sanatorium within how many
days??*** - ANS-5 days***
Board Hearing Disciplinary Action
- what number of days to enchantment any selection?***
- if TMB reveals practice a risk to the public, what can they do?*** - ANS-Doc has 30 DAYS*** to
enchantment any selection given by using board hearing; may also supply probation except
licensee has felony conviction
- may additionally briefly SUSPEND immediately WITHOUT HEARING or NOTICE***
(if the TMB reveals the exercise a danger to the general public)
Child MUST be immunized as consistent with board of health agenda UNLESS mother and
father decline. Are Docs chargeable for injury as a result of vaccination or failure to vaccinate if
refused?*** - ANS-NO the medical doctors aren't chargeable for any side effects or injury from
vaccination or lack there of***
Conditions that PREVENT you from getting a Standard License - ANS-- License that is
RESTRICTED or SUSPENDED in ANOTHER nation
- Under investigation for FELONY
----if PENDING research, license is both SUSPENDED or RESTRICTED
----if CONVICTED, the license is suspended and CANNOT be reissued***
Do you have to have malpractice coverage to exercise in TX?*** - ANS-NO***
Doctor himself MUST notify TMB inside 30 days that they do no longer have coverage***
Examples of EXEMPLARY: PUNITIVE Damages for Malpractice*** - ANS-Damages offered as
penalty (FRAUD/MALICE)
2003 Tort Reform limits to GREATER of:
- TWICE financial damages + quantity of non-economic NOT > $750k OR
- $200k
Wrongful dying award restriction $500k/claimant no matter # of defendants or establishments
versus Damages that are Actual: Economic (misplaced wages/medical prices) or Actual:
Non-economic damages (pain/struggling)
Examples of Felonies*** - ANS-***
- SEXUAL ABUSE of Nursing Home or Mental Patient
- Practicing Medicine WITHOUT Valid License***
