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1
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Law that governs the Medical Practice of Medical profession in the Philippines.

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Medical Act of 1959, as amended.

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This law prescribes the rights and obligations of person in their daily relation with each other and with society

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Substantive law

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3
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Concerned with relationship between individuals.

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Civil law

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Refers to a principle that in professional-malpractice suit, the standard of care or physician’s management of the patient should be based on the standard practice in the locality.

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Locality rule

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5
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Physician-patient relationship based on mutual trust and confidence.

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Fiduciary

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Type of MD-Patient relationship where patient is unconscious, seeks help and ready and willing to cooperate.

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Guidance-Cooperation Relation

*MD is in position of TRUST.

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Patient is unable to contribute activity. What ype of MD-Patient relationship?

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Activity-Passivity Relation

e.g. Patient is unconscious

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8
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If the patient died or became legally incapacitated to do so, the claim for medical fee shall be made from whom?

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In order:

  • Spouse
  • Descendants
  • Ascendants
  • Brothers and Sisters
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9
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Needed for conviction for Civil liabilities.

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Preponderance of evidence

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10
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Penalty for Administrative violation.

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Reprimand, Suspension, Revocation

*Reinstatement: after 2 years

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11
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Adequate compensation only for pecuniary loss suffered by a person as he has duly proved.

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Actual or Compensatory Damages

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12
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Consists in lack of precaution displayed in those cases in which the damage impending to be caused is not immediate nor the danger clearly manifest.

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Simple Imprudence

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13
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Arises from failure to furnish accommodations & facilities necessary to carry out its purpose.

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Corporate liabilities

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14
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The moonlighter prescribed the wrong medication wherein the patient developed severe hypersensitivity reaction. If the patient sues the moonlighter, what type of liability will be charged?

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Vicarious Liabilities

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15
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A principle that when court has once laid down a principle of law or interpretation as applied to a certain set of facts, it will adhere to and apply to all future cases where the facts are substantially the same.

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Principle of Stare Decisis

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16
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If a body of a victim is found this type of evidence is?

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Autoptic or Real Evidence

*evidences perceived by senses

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17
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Type of physical evidence that link the suspect to the crime.

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Associative Evidence

e.g. fingerprints, garments with hair of the suspect

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18
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Type of physical evidence that proves the crime existed.

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Corpus Delicti

e.g.: body of the victim, prohibited drugs, dagger with blood stains of fingerprints, stolen motor vehicles

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19
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The proof of fact or facts from which, taken either singly or collectively, the existence of a particular fact in dispute may be inferred as a necessary or probable consequence.

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Circumstantial Evidence

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20
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Utilizes the administration of anesthetic or hypnotics drugs prior to interrogation.

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Narcoanalysis

*sodium amytal or sodium pentothal

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21
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Acts which tend to excite lust; conduct which is wanton, lewd, voluptuous or lewd emotion.

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Act of Lasciviousness

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22
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When does fingerprints formed?

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4th month of pregnancy

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23
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Hardest substance in human body and may outlast all other tissued during putrefaction.

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Dental Enamel

24
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Most prominent signs of death.

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Progressive fall of body temperature

25
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Ligature is applied around the base of a finger with moderate tightness.

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Magnus test

26
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Signs of Death

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In order:

1) Cessation of Heat and Circulation
2) Cessation of Respiration
3) Cooling of the Body (Algor Mortis)
4) Insensibility of the Body & Loss of Power to Move
5) Changes in the Skin
6) Change about the Eye

27
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Lower and upper extremities flexed and the hands clenched because the flexor muscles are stronger than the extensors.

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Pugilistic Attitude

28
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Occurs in most extensive and most dependent portions of the body; color is uniform but the color may become greenish at the start of decomposition.

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Cadaveric Lividity

29
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Prominence of the superficial veins with reddish discoloration during the process of decomposition, which develops on both flanks of the abdomen, root of the neck and shoulder.

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Marbolization

30
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This is the softening of the tissues when in fluid medium in the absence of putrefactive microorganism which is frequently observed in the death of fetus in the utero.

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Maceration

31
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Dehydration of the body which results in shivering and preservation of the body.

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Mummification

32
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This is a condition wherein the fatty tissues of the body are transformed to soft brownish-white.

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Saponification

33
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Vessels used in embalming.

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Femoral and Carotid arteries

34
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The deceased buried may be raised or disinterred upon the lawful order of the proper authorities.

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Exhumation

35
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Larring or stunning of the brain characterized by more or less complete suspension of its functions as a result of injury to the head.

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Cerebral Concussion

36
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Tear of the skin or underlying tissues due to forcible contact with a blunt instrument.

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Lacerated wound

  • tear of the skin is rugged
  • borders are contused and swollen
  • bleeding is not extensive
  • healing process is delayed and scarring is common
37
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Produced by sharp-edged (cutting) or sharp linear edges of the instrument.

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Incised wound

  • edge are clean cut
  • wound is straight
  • profuse hemorrhage
  • gaping is usually present
  • shallow near and deeper in the middle
38
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If unburned powder grains are present, it will result to production of dark red or orange brown spots on the prepared paper.

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Walker’s test

39
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Test is not conclusive as to the presence of gunpowder.

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Dermal Nitrate Test

40
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Involuntary spasmodic painful contraction of muscles essentially due to dehydration and excessive of chlorides by sweating.

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Heat cramps

Symptoms:

  • onset is usually sudden
  • accompanied by headache, dizziness, and vomiting
  • face is flushed, pupils dilated with tinnitus & abdominal pain
  • amount of chloride excretion is diminished
41
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Caused by the application of heat or chemicals substances to the external or internal surfaces of the body.

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Thermal burns (dry heat)

42
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Due to heart failure primarily caused by heat and precipitated by muscular exertion and warm clothing.

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Heat Exhaustion

Symptoms:

  • sudden attack of syncope, general body weakness, giddiness and staggering movement
  • face is pale, skin is cold
  • pupils are dilated, pulse weak and thready
  • respiration is sighing
43
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Sudden onset that may be followed by premonitory symptoms of headache, malaise, giddiness and weakness of the legs; temp rises suddenly and skin becomes dry

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Heat Stroke

  • face is congested
  • pulse if full and pounding
  • respiration is irregular
  • pupils are usually contracted
  • death occurs in 1/2-1 hr after onset
44
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Splitting of tissues of the body, like the skin, due to exposure before or after death of the body.

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Heat Rupture

45
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Caused by the closing of the external respiratory orifices, either by use of the hand or by some other means.

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Smothering

46
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Average time required for death in drowning.

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2-5 minutes

47
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Sudden heart attack i the middle of dinner due to asphyxia by choking.

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Cafe coronary

48
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Quantitative determination of the chloride content of the blood in the right and left ventricle of the heart.

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Gettler’s Test

49
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Bronze color of the head and neck of a person who dies in water during process of decomposition.

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Tete de negri

50
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The murderer kneels or sits on the chest, and with his hands closes the nostrils and mouth of the victim.

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Burking

51
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Civil status of a child in relation to its father or mother.

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Filiation

52
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Those who were born in lawful wedlock within 300 days after dissolution of marriage.

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Legitimate Child

53
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A married woman, had an illicit affair with B. The child has been acknowledged by B to be his own.

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Natural Children by Presumption

54
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The accused is not criminally responsible if his act was a product of mental disease or mental defect.

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Durham Rule

55
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Classical classification of mental deficiency.

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Idiot: IQ is 0 to 20
Imbecile: IQ is 21 to 40
Feeble minded: IQ is 41 to 70
Moral defective: derived of moral sense and often shows mental deficiency

56
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A sedative drug is smaller dose and hypnotic in a bigger dose.

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Methalqualone

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