PJC Malpractice 2024

Contents

PJC 51.10

Informed Consent (Statutory)—Procedure Not on List A or B—No Emergency or Other Medically Feasible Reason for Nondisclosure—Disclosure in Issue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Informed Consent (Statutory)—Procedure on List A— No Emergency or Other Medically Feasible Reason for Nondisclosure—No Disclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Informed Consent (Statutory)—Procedure on List A— No Emergency or Other Medically Feasible Reason for Nondisclosure—Disclosure Not in Statutory Form . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Informed Consent (Statutory)—Procedure on List A— No Disclosure—Emergency or Other Medically Feasible Reason for Nondisclosure in Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Informed Consent (Statutory)—Procedure on List A— Validity of Disclosure Instrument in Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

PJC 51.11

PJC 51.12

PJC 51.13

PJC 51.14

PJC 51.15

Battery—Medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

PJC 51.16

Express Warranty—Medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

PJC 51.17

Implied Warranty—Medical (Comment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

PJC 51.18

Emergency Care and Emergency Medical Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

PJC 51.19

Malicious Credentialing Claim against a Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . 104

PJC 51.20

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)—Medical Screening Examinations and/or Stabilization before Transfer When a Patient Comes to a Hospital with an Emergency Medical Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Liability of Physicians, Health Care Providers, and First Responders During Pandemic (Comment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

PJC 51.21

C HAPTER 52

M EDICAL M ALPRACTICE —T HEORIES OF V ICARIOUS L IABILITY

PJC 52.1

Borrowed Employee—Medical—Liability of Borrowing Employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Borrowed Employee—Medical—Lending Employer’s Rebuttal Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

PJC 52.2

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