The Common Law Doctrine That Holds a Physician, for Example

question 29

Multiple Choice

The common law doctrine that holds a physician, for example, responsible for the acts of a nurse in the operating room when the physician directs the nurse to perform a particular medical act in the operating room and the nurse then performs it negligently and consequently injures the patient is the ___________.

• A) borrowed servant doctrine
• B) res ipsa loquitur
• C) Good Samaritan Act
• D) statute of limitations

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Definitions:

Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns

A rule of economics that asserts when a single production element is expanded and the rest stay unchanged, there will ultimately be a decline in total output after reaching a specific threshold.

Cost Curves

Graphical representations in economics that show how the costs of production vary with different levels of output.

Marginal Product

The additional output that can be produced by adding one more unit of a specific input, holding all other inputs constant.