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false Course HCA 201 Sprg Test Quiz 4 Status Completed Attemp t Score 16 out of 18 points Results Displaye d All Answers, Submitted Answers, Correct Answers, Incorrectly Answered Questions
- Question 1 1 out of 1 points True or false: Contracts are generally characterized as involving civil (rather than criminal) legal issues. Selecte d Answer : Tr u e Answers: Tru e Fals e - Question 2 Which of the following are elements of all valid contracts? 1 out of 1 points Selecte d Answer : Competent parties, a meeting of the minds, and consideration Answer s: (^) A written document signed and witnessed by competent persons
Competent parties, a meeting of the minds, and consideration Express consent and a legal purpose Waiver of liability and a liquidated damages clause
- Question 3 1 out of 1 points True or false: The doctor–patient and hospital–patient relationships are based on the principles of contract. Selecte d Answer : Tr u e Answers: Tru e Fals e - Question 4 1 out of 1 points True or false: For a doctor–patient relationship to exist, the physician must have direct contact with the patient. Selecte d Answer : Fal s e Answers: True Fal s e - Question 5
An express contract is one that. Selecte d Answer : has been reduced to words Answer s: (^) must be performed within one year has been reduced to words involves payment of money contains mutual, spoken promises
- Question 6 1 out of 1 points A physician's unfulfilled promise to cure a patient may lead to which of the following types of liability? Selecte d Answer : Breach of warrant y Answer s: Breach of warrant y
Res ipsa loquitur Per se violation Punitive damages
- Question 7 1 out of 1 points True or false: The doctor–patient relationship normally ends when the patient is cured or dies. Selecte d Answer : Tr u e Answers: Tru e Fals e - Question 8 1 out of 1 points True or false: An employee who suffers a work-related injury usually has the option either to sue the employer for negligence or to file a workers' compensation claim. Selecte d Answer : Fal s e Answers: True Fal s e
A physician notifies a patient that, effective immediately, he (the physician) never wants to see her (the patient) again because she has failed to follow his recommendations. The physician is potentially liable for which of the following? Selecte d Answer : Abandonment Answer s: (^) Alienation of affections Violation of privacy rights Gross negligence Abandonment
- Question 10 An unconsented touching constitutes. 1 out of 1 points Selecte d Answer : Battery Answers: Battery
Assault Medical malpractic e False imprisonment
- Question 11 1 out of 1 points An author publishes something untrue about a private citizen, and the subject's reputation is injured. What type of intentional tort is most likely to be alleged if a lawsuit is filed? Selecte d Answer : Libel Answers: Slander Libel Outrage Alienation of affections - Question 12 1 out of 1 points
confidentiality False imprisonment Defamation Outrage
- Question 14 0 out of 1 points True or false: Every type of intentional tort can arise in the healthcare setting. Selecte d Answer : Fal s e Answers: Tru e Fals e - Question 15 True or false: The category of defamation includes both libel and slander. 1 out of 1 points Selecte d Answer : Tr u e Answers: Tru e
Fals e
- Question 16
- Q uestion 18 0 out of 1 points
Proving a case against a physician on a breach of contract theory is sometimes easier than on a standard negligence claim because . Selecte d Answer : contract claims have per se liability provisions Answer s: (^) contract claims have per se liability provisions juries are more generous in contract cases the statute of limitations is much longer the plaintiff does not have to prove a standard of care
