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Chapter 47: Medical Negligence

§47.1 Ad Damnum §47.2 Agency/Apparent Authority §47.3 Allocation of Fault to Medical Negligence Plaintiff for Pre-Injury Conduct §47.4 Battery §47.5 Cases Against Health Care Providers That Are Not Medical Malpractice Cases §47.6 Certificate of Good Faith Requirement §47.7 Collateral Source Rule §47.8 Common Knowledge Exception §47.9 Contiguous State Rule – Application to Causation Witnesses §47.10 Contiguous State Rule – Waiver §47.11 Corporate Liability Doctrine §47.12 Causation Expert Need Not Know Standard of Care §47.13 Discovering the Standard of Care from the Defendant Doctor §47.14 Duty of Hospital to Get Informed Consent §47.15 Duty, Non-Delegable §47.16 Duty of Nursing Home to Protect Patients From Criminal Acts of Employee §47.17 Duty of Pharmacist §47.18 Duty of Physician to Non-Patients When Prescribing Drug to Patient §47.19 Duty of Physician to Refer to a Specialist §47.20 Duty of Psychiatrist to Prevent Injury by Patients to Others §47.21 Duty to Warn Patient of HIV Infection §47.22 Duty to Warn Non-Patient Family Member of Risk of Contracting Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever From Patient §47.23 Error of Judgment Rule §47.24 Existence of Physician – Patient Relationship §47.25 Foreign Objects Exception to Statute of Repose §47.26 Fraudulent Concealment Exception to Statute of Repose §47.27 Informed Consent §47.28 Liability for Suicide §47.29 Locality Rule §47.30 Loss of Chance §47.31 Peer Review Statute Privilege §47.32 Pre-Suit Notice Requirement §47.33 Proof of Causation in Res Ipsa Cases §47.34 Re-Filing Case Under Savings Statute After Expiration of Statute of Repose §47.35 Res Ipsa Loquitor §47.36 Special Damages Issues §47.37 Statute of Repose §47.38 Sudden Emergency Doctrine
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