PJC Malpractice 2024

C HAPTER 50

M EDICAL M ALPRACTICE —D EFINITIONS , I NSTRUCTIONS , AND P RELIMINARY Q UESTIONS

PJC 50.1

Physician’s Degree of Care; Proximate Cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

PJC 50.2

Hospital’s Degree of Care; Proximate Cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

PJC 50.3

Health Care Personnel’s Degree of Care; Proximate Cause. . . . . 49

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 50.8

Open Courts Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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