Patients sue for a variety of reasons. Which of the following is not one of the top recurring reasons patients sue?
A. medication errors
B. delay in diagnosis
C. correction of a mistake
D. wrong diagnosis
E. birth injury
C. correction of a mistake
When a mistake is made, but corrected, patients are not as likely to sue. Medication errors, delays or wrong diagnoses, along with birth injuries, are common reasons for patients to sue.
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A) admissible in court as secondary evidence B) admissible in court as primary evidence C) not admissible in court because they are on microfilm D) not admissible in court because they are hearsay evidence
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A. Young's rule B. Clark's rule C. Body surface area (BSA) D. Fried's law
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