Respond to the following question with supporting legal basis:
Question
1: Describe the basis of the physician-patient relationship and at least
two duties or legal obligations the physician has to the patient.
Question
2: What does the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine prohibit?
What is the rationale for the doctrine?
Question
3: Describe the requirements for terminating the physician-patient relationship. What allegation can be made against the healthcare provider if
the relationship is not properly terminated?
Question 4: List
the elements of a negligence-based healthcare liability claim.
Question 5: How
is the standard of care established/proved in a healthcare liability
claim?
Question 6: What
does res ipsa loquitur mean and in what type of healthcare
liability
claims is it most commonly applied?
Question 7: Hospitals
and healthcare facilities are heavily regulated. Describe three
traditional
external controls/agencies for regulating or licensing healthcare providers.
Question
7: Hospitals and healthcare facilities are heavily regulated.
Describe three
traditional external controls/agencies for regulating or
licensing healthcare providers.
Question 8: What
is the National Practitioner Data Bank and what is its purpose?
Question 9: What is the Quality and Patient Safety
Movement and why did it start?
How have hospitals/healthcare organizations
responded?