Chapter 6 Professional Liability and Medical Malpractice

Failure to perform an action that a reasonable person would have performed in a similar situation is 

• an assumption of risk.
• negligence.
• respondeat superior.
• malfeasance.

Performing a wrong and illegal act is considered

• misfeasance.
• nonfeasance.
• malfeasance.
• feasance.

Professional misconduct or demonstration of an unreasonable lack of skill with the result of injury, loss, or damage to the patient is

• nonfeasance.
• feasance.
• malpractice.
• misfeasance.

Negligence is composed of four elements

• malpractice, misfeasance, nonfeasance, and malfeasance.
• duty, dereliction of duty, direct or proximate cause, and damages.
• malpractice, misfeasance, dereliction of duty, and damages.
• duty, dereliction of duty, nonfeasance, and malfeasance.

The reasonable person standard refers to the

• dereliction of duty.
• damages.
• duty of due care.
• proximate cause.

The standard of care for physicians and other healthcare professionals is determined by

• the AMA.
• the local hospital.
• a board of physicians appointed by the local chapter of the AMA who practice in the same medical specialty.
• what members of the same profession would do in a similar situation within the same geographic area.

To prove dereliction of duty, a patient would have to prove the physician

• did not carry malpractice insurance.

• did not conform to the acceptable standard of care.

• took additional risks in performing the treatment.

• none of answers are true

The thing speaks for itself applies to the law of negligence and is the doctrine of

• res ipsa loquitur.
• respondeat superior.
• preponderance of evidence.
• compensatory damages.

Monetary awards by a court to a person who has been harmed in an especially malicious or willful way are 

• compensatory damages. 
• nominal damages.
• punitive damages.
• wrongful damages.

To win a wrongful death case, the plaintiff must prove 

• proximate cause of death.
• malpractice.
• nominal damages.
• negligence.