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Assumption of risk
Conduct,courtesy,and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professionals are
known as...
Medical etiquette
An international perversion of thuth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance uopm it to part with
some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right is called...
Fraud
To interrupt or discontinue a suit temporarily with the intention or intention or resumption at a later date,or
to ask for a continuance is called a ...
Suspension
Latin for "things decided" that is, a matter already decided by judicial authority is called...
Res judicata
That which in natural and continoussequence,unbroken by any new independent cause, produces an
event, and without wich the injury would not have occurred is called...
Proximate cause
The presumtion or inference of negligence when an accident is otherise unable to be explained in terms of
ordinary and known experience is called...
Res ipsa loquitur
Failure to achieve an agreed upon result,even when the highest degree of skill has been used, is called...
Breach of contract
What licence must a physician have to dispense,precribe or administer controlled substances?
Narcotic
Unauthorized disclosure of information regarding any patient to a third party may result in...
Invasion of privacy
Medical research is often published in medical journals that are evaluated by members of the medical
community through a process known as...
Peer review
Under the Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982, Peer Review Organizations are responsible for the review
for appropriateness an necessity of putting a patient into the hospital by a process known as........ review
Admissions
A fraudulent signature is called...