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Hippocratic Oath

Hippocratic Oath. Hippocratic Oath. M andates physicians to always take in consideration the well-being of their patients . If a doctor fails to live up to this precept, he is accountable for his acts.

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Hippocratic Oath

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  1. Hippocratic Oath

  2. Hippocratic Oath • Mandates physicians to always take in consideration the well-being of their patients. • If a doctor fails to live up to this precept, he is accountable for his acts. • Courts face a unique restraint in adjudicating medical negligence cases because physicians can not guarantee no harm will be done, but there intent is not to cause injury. • However, intent is immaterial in negligence cases because where negligence exists and is proven, it automatically gives the injured a right to reparation for the damage caused.

  3. res ipsaloquitur

  4. res ipsaloquitur • This doctrine allows the mere existence of an injury to justify a presumption of negligence on the part of the person who controls the instrument causing the injury, provided that the following requisites concur: • The accident is of a kind which ordinarily does not occur in the absence of someone’s negligence • It is caused by an instrumentality within the exclusive control of the defendant or defendants • The possibility of contributing conduct which would make the plaintiff responsible is eliminated.

  5. res ipsaloquitur Res IpsaLoquitur requisite Case against petitioner The gaping wound on Nora’s arm is not an ordinary occurrence in the act of delivery. The arm is too distant in the organs involved in the given procedure. Such injury could not have happened unless negligence had set in somewhere. • The accident is of a kind which ordinarily does not occur in the absence of someone’s negligence.

  6. res ipsaloquitur Res IpsaLoquitur requisite Case against petitioner Whether the injury was caused by the droplight or by the BP monitoring should not matter Both instruments are deemed within the exclusive control of the physician in charge under the "captain of the ship" doctrine. The surgeon is responsible for an operation liable for the negligence of his assistants during the time when those assistants are under the surgeon’s control. The petititioner is under executive control of both the drop light and blood pressure taking. • It is caused by an instrumentality within the exclusive control of the defendant or defendants

  7. res ipsaloquitur Res IpsaLoquitur requisite Case against petitioner The gaping wound on Nora’s left arm, could only be caused by something external to her and outside her control as she was unconscious while in hypovolemic shock. Nora could not have contributed to her own injury. • The possibility of contributing conduct which would make the plaintiff responsible is eliminated.

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