Healthcare&Medicine

Application Exercises

Read Real-World Case 8.1 on page 243 of your textbook and respond to the following questions in at least one paragraph for each answer.
1. This case highlights the fact that healthcare professionals in addition to physicians are subject to professional malpractice liability. Why do you think physicians are most frequently linked with the term “medical malpractice?”
2. Of the three types of negligence, which type do you think most closely describes a physical therapist who acted too aggressively?
3. Why it is likely that a much larger award would have been rendered at trial than through settlement?

You have been invited to make a presentation on legal terms to a group of freshmen HIM students. Create a slide deck presentation and write your script using the notes function. Include at least 20 legal terms from Chapter 8 in your presentation (see “Key Terms” on pages 223-224 of your textbook).