3) you're interning as a medical office assistant for a small medical practice. One day while the doctor & nurse are absent, a male patient comes into the office without an appointment & asks to see the doctor.Before you can respond, he collapses on the floor & dies.Later the patient's estate sues you, the nurse, & the doctor.As a medical office assistant,
A) you would't be held accountable as a witness to the mans death
B) you would't be held to the same standard of care as the doctor or nurse
C) you need to determine whether the doctor or nurse were guilty of negligence toward the patient
D) your duty was to hide or destroy any incriminating records
I THINK IT'S A OR B Please help
5) a principal-agent relationship is created when a person
A) promises to turn an agreement into a lawful contract
B) is entrusted to take care of another person
C) works under the control & direction of another person
D) doesn't understand the consequences of entering into a contract
I THINK IT'S C
Negligence is the failure to exercise, with an absence of _______, that degree of care that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
A) fraud C) malice
B) intent D) conscience
I THINK IT'S B
ML
3 c
5 b
negligence question is C
brewer_engineer
3) You're a witness to the man's death. You're not accountable....but you were there and witnessed the circumstances. Your testimony would probably be used to determine whether the doctor or nurse were negligent. This doesn't mean YOU make this determination. Just that you were a witness.
5) B
Negligence is the failure to exercise, with an absence of malice, that degree of care that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances.
Malice means you would have been willfull. Negligence is without malice.
lcmcpa
l. A
You have no standard of care, they just died. It is not your business what went on between the doctor and patient or nurse and patient.
2. B It is not C because that would be an employer-employee relationship.
3. C. Absence of Malice. They even made a movie about it by that name starring Paul Newman and Sally Field.
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Title: Suit for wrongful death valid despite 5 years post negligence.(Medical Law Case of the Month)
Author: A. David Tammelleo
Publication: Medical Law's Regan Report (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40 Issue: 12 Page: 2(2)
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Suit for wrongful death valid despite 5 years post negligence.(Medical Law Case of the Month): An article from: Medical Law's Regan Report
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