Series 500 - Medical Negligence
- 500. Medical Negligence - Essential Factual Elements
- 501. Standard of Care for Health Care Professionals
- 502. Standard of Care for Medical Specialists
- 503A. Psychotherapist’s Duty to Protect Intended Victim From Patient’s Threat
- 503B. Affirmative Defense - Psychotherapist’s Communication of Threat to Victim and Law Enforcement
- 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 - 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 the Patient’s Own Well- Being
- 518. Medical Malpractice: Res ipsa loquitur
- 519-530. Reserved for Future Use
- 530A. Medical Battery
- 530B. Medical Battery - Conditional Consent
- 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. Affirmative Defense - Statute of Limitations - Medical Malpractice - One- Year Limit (Code Civ. Proc., § 340.5)
- 556. Affirmative Defense - Statute of Limitations - Medical Malpractice - Three- Year Limit (Code Civ. Proc., § 340.5)
- 557-599. Reserved for Future Use
- VF-500. Medical Negligence
- VF-501. Medical Negligence - Informed Consent - Affirmative Defense - Plaintiff Would Have Consented Even If Informed
- VF-502. Medical Negligence - Informed Consent - Affirmative Defense - Emergency
- VF-503-VF-599. Reserved for Future Use
