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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