Registry 2025 - medicolegal terms

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Assault

  • Threat of physical injury (battery)

  • Is a form of intentional misconduct

  • Imprudent conduct causes fear in patient

  • Grounds for allegations of civil law violation (torts)

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Battery

  • Is a form of Intentional misconduct

  • Harm resulting from physical contact

  • Radiographic the wrong part or performing an xray against a patient's will is also considered this

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Torts

  • Violation of civil law

  • Also known at Personal injury law

  • Injured party have the right to compensation

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Libel

Written defamation

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Slander

Spoken defamation

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Unintentional misconduct

  • Also known as negligence

  • It's neglect/an omission of care

  • Based on the doctrine of The Reasonably Prudent Person

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The Reasonably Prudent Person doctrine

Based on how a reasonable person with the same education and experience would perform under the similar circumstances