PJC Malpractice 2024

C HAPTER 53

M EDICAL M ALPRACTICE —D EFENSES

Defensive theories may be found in the following PJCs:

PJC 50.4

New and Independent Cause—Medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

PJC 50.5

Sole Proximate Cause—Medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

PJC 50.6

Physician-Patient Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

PJC 50.7

Evidence of Bad Result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

PJC 51.4

Proportionate Responsibility—Medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

PJC 51.5

Proportionate Responsibility If Contribution Defendant Is Joined—Medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Proportionate Responsibility—Medical—Derivative Claimant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

PJC 51.6

PJC 51.18 Emergency Care and Emergency Medical Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 PJC 51.18A Emergency Care (Good Samaritan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 PJC 51.18B Emergency Medical Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 PJC 51.21 Liability of Physicians, Health Care Providers, and First Responders During Pandemic (Comment). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

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