Part 2 Flashcards
Patient was aware that physician was drunk yet he allowed the doctor to inject him:
res ipsa loquitor
Patient Mr. Lee promised to pay Dr. B one million pesos if he us cured of his cancer. The professional fee to be collected by B refers to:
contingent fee
HIV patient takes experimental drugs despite unknown side effects:
assumption of risk
There is direct physical connection between the wrongful act of the Physician and the injury suffered by the patient:
Doctrine of proximate cause
Principle applied when the medical fee is not specified:
“Asumpsit on quanthum merit”
Article 365 which deals with imprudence and negligence is a provision of:
Revised penal code
To which forum can an administrative complaint be filed against doctors?
Professional Regulation Comission
Reprimand is a sanction imposed against a doctor when he is guilty of what liability:
Administrative liability
If the license of a physician is suspended indefinitely, after how long can he apply for reinstatement?
2 years
What is the degree of proof/evidence needed to convict physician of a crime?
Guilt beyond reasonable doubt
The study of licensure laws, regulatory laws and physician-patient relationship, is known in medical school curriculum as:
Medical Jurisprudence
Which of the following does not affect a termination of physician-patient relationship?
withdrawal of physician without patient consent
A physician should never examine or treat hospitalized patient of another physician without the latter’s knowledge and consent except when:
in case of emergency, the attending physician is not readily available
A physician accused of criminal abortion was acquitted because:
the product of conception could not be produced in court
Mr. A brought his 3 yrs old son to a hospital. Dr. B, the admitting physician admitted the pediatric case to the medicine ward because the pediatric ward is full. During the night, the patient child was seen in the floor with a fractured skull resulting from a fall. It was found out that the bed was without railings. Mr. A wanted to sue Dr. B and the hospital. The doctrine applicable in this case would be:
Forseeability
Mr. A brought his 3 yrs old son to a hospital. Dr. B, the admitting physician admitted the pediatric case to the medicine ward because the pediatric ward is full. During the night, the patient child was seen in the floor with a fractured skull resulting from a fall. It was found out that the bed was without railings. Mr. A wanted to sue Dr. B and the hospital.
Suppose before admission Mr. A was informed of the absence of railings to protect the child from fall:
assumption of risk
Mr. A brought his 3 yrs old son to a hospital. Dr. B, the admitting physician admitted the pediatric case to the medicine ward because the pediatric ward is full. During the night, the patient child was seen in the floor with a fractured skull resulting from a fall. It was found out that the bed was without railings. Mr. A wanted to sue Dr. B and the hospital. Suppose Mr. A has already previously and repeatedly complained of the absence of railings to Dr. B but no attention was given to the complaint, which doctrine could be applicable?
continuing negligence
Suppose one day after an intramuscular injection a part of the needle was discovered protruding from the buttocks of the patient, what is the doctrine applicable?
res ipsa loquitor
Originally there were railings on the bed of the patient. Mr A, the father removed the railings so that he himself can sleep on the bed. His child fell with a broken skull. What is the doctrine applicable:
contributory negligence
Patient leaves the hospital against advice:
Contributory Negligence
Common defense of the hospital are regards consultants liability to his private patients:
Independent Contractor
The reporting of treatment of serious physical injuries by a physician is:
Mandatory
Under the doctrine the hospital owner may be liable for the mistakes of the residents:
Vicarious liability
Which of the following laws is enforced by the state:
Substantive law
A terminally ill patient is given an overdose of sedatives without his knowledge. What crime if any is committed by the doctor:
Murder
The bone which is most informative regarding the sex of the owner of the skeleton being examined is the:
Pelvis
The willful deliberate and painless acceleration of death of a person:
Euthanasia
The cause of death resulting from lack of skill, lack of foresight, and reckless imprudence is called:
Negligence
When a body is the subject matter of a criminal investigation, it may be exhumed:
Anytime
Any change for the position of the cadaver will not change the location of this type of cadaveric lividity:
Diffusion
Exhumation is also known as:
disinterment
Deep burial sites will make decomposition :
slower
When blood accumulates in the most dependent portions of the dead body, it is called
post-mortem lividity
A missing person is presumed dead if he is not heard from for:
4 years
