Medical Law and Ethics Chapter 6
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Name and briefly describe the four Cs of medical malpractice prevention. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔*caring: care about patients and colleagues
*communication: communicate clearly and accurately
*competence: know your limitations, update credentials, confer with other
professionals, stay informed
*charting: documentation is proof, chart clearly and accurately.
Briefly describe how practicing effective communication skills can help
prevent a medical malpractice lawsuit. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔*Misunderstandings and misinformation often leads to lawsuits.
*If you communicate clearly and accurately and get confirmation from
patients that they understand, this can help prevent lawsuits.
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,If a patient refuses treatment, what legal options remain for the health care
practitioner in charge? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔*A patient cannot be forced to
accept treatment, evaluation, or testing.
*His decision to decline should be documented in his patient record.
Ideally, his refusal should be obtained in writing, but should definitely be
noted in his record.
Name five reasons often cited for the suing of health care practitioners by
patient and their families. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔*To prevent the perceived injury
from happening to anyone else
*to receive an explanation
*to get an admission of negligence
*I was angry
*to punish the doctor
Denial - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a defense that claims that innocence of the
charges or that one or more of the four Ds of negligence are lacking
Affirmative defenses - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔defenses used by defendants in
medical professional liability suits that allow the accused to present factual
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, evidence that the patient's condition was caused by some factor other than
the defendant's negligence
Contributory negligence - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔an affirmative defense that
alleges that the plaintiff, through a lack of care, caused or contributed to his
or her own injury
Assumption of risk - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a legal defense that holds that the
defendant is not guilty of a negligent act because the plaintiff knew of and
accepted beforehand any risks involved
Emergency - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a type of affirmative defense in which the
person who comes to the aid of a victim in an emergency is not held liable
under certain circumstances
Technical defense - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔defenses used in a lawsuit that are
based on legal technicalities
Release of tortfeasor - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a technical defense that prohibits a
lawsuit against the person who caused an injury (the tortfeasor) if he or she
was expressly released from further liability in the settlement of a lawsuit
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2024/2025 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
Name and briefly describe the four Cs of medical malpractice prevention. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔*caring: care about patients and colleagues
*communication: communicate clearly and accurately
*competence: know your limitations, update credentials, confer with other
professionals, stay informed
*charting: documentation is proof, chart clearly and accurately.
Briefly describe how practicing effective communication skills can help
prevent a medical malpractice lawsuit. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔*Misunderstandings and misinformation often leads to lawsuits.
*If you communicate clearly and accurately and get confirmation from
patients that they understand, this can help prevent lawsuits.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,If a patient refuses treatment, what legal options remain for the health care
practitioner in charge? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔*A patient cannot be forced to
accept treatment, evaluation, or testing.
*His decision to decline should be documented in his patient record.
Ideally, his refusal should be obtained in writing, but should definitely be
noted in his record.
Name five reasons often cited for the suing of health care practitioners by
patient and their families. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔*To prevent the perceived injury
from happening to anyone else
*to receive an explanation
*to get an admission of negligence
*I was angry
*to punish the doctor
Denial - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a defense that claims that innocence of the
charges or that one or more of the four Ds of negligence are lacking
Affirmative defenses - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔defenses used by defendants in
medical professional liability suits that allow the accused to present factual
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, evidence that the patient's condition was caused by some factor other than
the defendant's negligence
Contributory negligence - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔an affirmative defense that
alleges that the plaintiff, through a lack of care, caused or contributed to his
or her own injury
Assumption of risk - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a legal defense that holds that the
defendant is not guilty of a negligent act because the plaintiff knew of and
accepted beforehand any risks involved
Emergency - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a type of affirmative defense in which the
person who comes to the aid of a victim in an emergency is not held liable
under certain circumstances
Technical defense - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔defenses used in a lawsuit that are
based on legal technicalities
Release of tortfeasor - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a technical defense that prohibits a
lawsuit against the person who caused an injury (the tortfeasor) if he or she
was expressly released from further liability in the settlement of a lawsuit
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