Series 500 - Medical Negligence

• 500. Essential Factual Elements
• 501. Standard of Care for Health Care Professionals
• 502. Standard of Care for Medical Specialists
• 503. Psychotherapist's Duty to Warn—Essential Factual Elements
• 504. Standard of Care for Nurses
• 505. Success Not Required
• 506. Alternative Methods of Care
• 507. Duty to Warn Patient
• 508. Duty to Refer to a Specialist
• 509. Abandonment of Patient
• 510. Derivative Liability of Surgeon
• 511. Wrongful Birth—Sterilization/Abortion—Essential Factual Elements
• 512. Wrongful Birth—Genetic Testing—Essential Factual Elements
• 513. Wrongful Life—Essential Factual Elements
• 514. Duty of Hospital
• 515. Duty of Hospital to Provide Safe Environment
• 516. Duty of Hospital to Screen Medical Staff
• 517. Affirmative Defense—Patient's Duty to Provide for His or Her Own Well-Being
• 518. Medical Malpractice: Res ipsa loquitur
• 519-529. Reserved for Future Use
• 530. Medical Battery
• 531. Consent on Behalf of Another
• 532. Informed Consent—Definition
• 533. Failure to Obtain Informed Consent—Essential Factual Elements
• 534. Informed Refusal—Definition
• 535. Risks of Nontreatment—Essential Factual Elements
• 536-549. Reserved for Future Use
• 550. Affirmative Defense—Plaintiff Would Have Consented
• 551. Affirmative Defense—Waiver
• 552. Affirmative Defense—Simple Procedure
• 553. Affirmative Defense—Emotional State of Patient
• 554. Affirmative Defense—Emergency
• 555-599. Reserved for Future Use
• VF-500. Medical Negligence
• VF-501. Medical Negligence—Informed Consent—Affirmative Defense That Plaintiff Would Have Consented Even If Informed
• VF-502. Medical Negligence—Informed Consent—Defense of Emergency
• VF-503-VF-599. Reserved for Future Use