prefi ethics 2.0

Question 1

It is based upon a legal wrong other than breach of contract

Answer 1

TORT

Question 2

An incorrect conclusion about the cause of a disease or problem.

Answer 2

IMPROPER DIAGNOSIS

Question 3

It is a conduct rather than a state of mind or a social policy, it is behavior that involves an unreasonable risk to others.

Answer 3

NEGLIGENCE

Question 4

Based upon a duty to conform to a reasonable standard of conduct and that coffer liability for injury caused a failure to conform to the required standard.

Answer 4

NEGLIGENT TORT

Question 5

It signifies entire want of care which raises the presumption of conscious indifference to consequences.

Answer 5

GROSS NEGLIGENCE

Question 6

Lack of ability, lack of fitness, or lack of adequate expertise to discharge a required duty or a specific act.

Answer 6

INCOMPETENCE

Question 7

Failure in the exercise of a reasonable degree of skill and care on the part of the practitioner in his treatment of the patient.

Answer 7

MALPRACTICE

Question 8

A public and malicious imputation of a crime, or of vice, defect, real or imaginary, or nay act, omission, or condition, status or circumstance tendering to cause the dishonor, discredit, or contempt of a natural or juridical person.

Answer 8

DEFAMATION

Question 9

It is committed by means of writing, printing, lithography, engraving, radio, or any similar means.

Answer 9

LIBEL

Question 10

Intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right

Answer 10

FRAUD

Question 11

This involves the responsibility of a person, who is not negligent for wrongful conduct or negligence of another.

Answer 11

DOCTRINE VICARIOUS LIABILITY

Question 12

The fact that the application of a treatment or management procedure result badly or that the result was diametrically opposite to what is expected is not sufficient to infer negligence.

Answer 12

BAD RESULT RULE

Question 13

It means the nature of the wrongful act or injury is suggestive of negligence.

Answer 13

DOCTRINE OF RES IPSA LOQUITUR

Question 14

If the patient fails to follow the doctor’s warning or instruction at the time of the administration of a treatment or procedure leading to the patient’s injury.

Answer 14

SUBSEQUENT

Question 15

Defined as “conduct on the part of the plaintiff, contributing as a legal cause to the harm he has suffered, which falls below the standard to which he is required to conform for his own protection”

Answer 15

DOCTRINE OF CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE

Question 16

If the patients fail to comply with the doctor’s advice or instruction which were to be done in a specified time, as immediately after such treatment, leading to the patient’s suffering from injury as the proximate cause of such patient’s non-compliance.

Answer 16

CONTEMPORANEOUS

Question 17

It provides that the employer cannot be held liable if a servant (employee) is injured on aceount of the negligence of his fellow servant (employee)

Answer 17

FELLOW SERVANT DOCTRINE

Question 18

Any person who voluntarily assumes the risk of injury from a know danger or hazard is barred from the recovery or damages if he suffers the injury.

Answer 18

DOCTRINE OF ASSUMPTION OF RISK

Question 19

Provides that if a person is injured in the act of rescuing a victim in an accident, the original wrongdoer is held liable for such injury.

Answer 19

RESCUE DOCTRINE

Question 20

If the patient allows the doctor to proceed in the administration of a treatment or procedure inspite of the patient’s full knowledge that the doctor was not in the proper condition to do so physically or mentally.

Answer 20

ANTECEDENT

Question 21

Forms of pecuniary compensations that maybe recovered by the injured or aggrieved party for breach of some duty or violation of some right recognized by law.

Answer 21

SPECIAL DAMAGES

Question 22

The loss of person already suffered.

Answer 22

DANO EMERGENTE

Question 23

Damages are those agreed upon by the parties to a contract, to be paid in case of breach thereof

Answer 23

DAMAGES

Question 24

To call on the judge to determine how much the damage he wishes to receive if he were iff in the lawsuit.

Answer 24

GOLDEN RULE METHOD

Question 25

Estimated Value of pain and suffering per day multiplied by the number of days the victim will suffer.

Answer 25

PER DIEM METHOD

Question 26

This includes physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirch reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation and similar injury.

Answer 26

MORAL DAMAGES

Question 27

A suffering ordinarily accompanies physical pain.

Answer 27

GENERAL DAMAGES

Question 28

Failure to receive the benefit which would have pertained to him.

Answer 28

LUCRO CESANTE

Question 29

These damages are not ordinarily anticipated by the defendant.

Answer 29

LIQUIDATED DAMAGES

Question 30

These are which, in the natural and normal course of events, can be expressed to attend a given type of injury.

Answer 30

MENTAL ANGUISH