What are goals, standards, and requirement for an effective physician/patient relationship?
A month later J. R. contacted a lawyer who requested her medical records. After the third request to the medical records department was unsuccessful, the lawyer requested a subpoena for the medical records. An unidentified woman representing the hospital left a detailed message of the specifics of the subpoena and the status of the release of the medical record on the lawyer’s office voice mail. A week later, finally J. R.’s medical records arrived at her lawyer’s office. The education checklist was found after a thorough review of the medical record. The signature on the education checklist in the medical records was the same on the education checklist J. R. produced to the lawyer, the dates were the same. The difference was, the education checklist in the medical record was complete, indicating J. R. received proper care for her wound site while in the hospital, and received instructions on how to clean her post surgical wound site.
In 15 slides, (with 75-word speaker notes for each slide) discuss the below information, utilizing the case above.
- Identify the type of law that will govern this case, and discuss.
- Define and identify the following:
- Plaintiff
- Defendant
- How may the defendant’s lawyer use the defense of the following?
- Comparative negligence
- Contributory negligence
- Were the four elements of negligence evident in the case? Discuss how each relates to the case.
- Duty of care
- Dereliction (Breach of duty of care)
- Damage (injury)
- Direct Cause (causation)
- Discuss the Physician/Patient relationship as it relates to this case.
- What are goals, standards, and requirement for an effective physician/patient relationship?
- Define Standard of Care.
- Was standard of care practiced in this case? Was the principle of Prudent Person observed? Why/Why not?
- Discuss HIPAA standards of privacy, security, and confidentiality and relate these standards to the case.
- Define and discuss the following:
- Duty-Base Ethics
- Beneficence
- Justice