Healthcare Legalities: An Introduction to Medical Malpractice

Do physical harm or damage to (someone)

• Informed Consent

• Injure

• Promixate Cause

• Medical Malpractice

Penalized for violating a law or accepted procedure

• Insurance

• Sanctioned

• Statute of Limitations

• Defense Medicine

A person whose education, profession, or specialized experience qualifies him or her with superior knowledge of a subject

• Expert Witness

• negligence

• plaintiff

• Peer Reviews

Assessment of academic, professional, or scientific work by others who are experts in the same field

• Expert Witness

• negligence

• plaintiff

• Peer Reviews

Voluntary acceptance of a known danger

• Assumption of Risk

• Defendant

• Contributory Negligence

• Risk Management

Any activity, process, or policy to reduce liability. exposure. From both a patient safety and a financial perspective

• Assumption of Risk

• Defendant

• Contributory Negligence

• Risk Management

One who brings a court action against another

• Assumption of Risk

• Defendant

• Contributory Negligence

• plaintiff

Permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits

• Informed Consent

• Injure

• Promixate Cause

• Medical Malpractice

Conduct by a plaintiff that is below the standard to which he or she is legally required to conform for his or her own protection

• Ethical

• Grossly Negligent

• Informed Consent

• Injure

Any act or omission by a physician during treatment of a patient that deviates from accepted norms of practice in the medical community and causes an injury to the patient

• Informed Consent

• Injure

• Promixate Cause

• Medical Malpractice