Answered: The director of a drug treatment center…

Phlebotomy Essentials

6th Edition

ISBN:9781451194524

Author:Ruth McCall, Cathee M. Tankersley MT(ASCP)

Publisher:Ruth McCall, Cathee M. Tankersley MT(ASCP)

Chapter1: Phlebotomy: Past And Present And The Healthcare Setting

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1SRQ

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The director of a drug treatment center called a physician friend and requested that he admit one of the center’s patients to the hospital. The physician friend had been seriously ill and was at home recovering when he received the telephone call. He was in no condition to visit the patient in the hospital and conveyed that information to the director but did allow the patient to be admitted to the hospital under his name. The patient never saw the physician before she died of an undiagnosed brain abscess within a few days after admission. Her father sued the physician, claiming that there was a patient–physician relationship between his daughter and the physician. Should the court agree with the physician or the father? Yes, I believe the court should agree with the father as this physician had never met with the patient nor did it seem like that physician worked for the center. The physician was simply doing a favor for a worker at the center granted it seemed that the patient should have been hospitalized, but the physician had no history of the patient other than what was told to him/her by the drug treatment center.

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Step 1 A DIRCTOR OF DRUG CENTER ......

*DIRCTOR OF DRUG CENTER REUESTEING BY PHONE HIS PHYSICIAN FRIEND FOR ADMISSION ONE OF CENTER PATIENT TO HOSPITAL .

IN THE CASE PHYSICIAN FRIEND conveyed that information to the director but did allow the patient to be admitted to the hospital under his name,BCZ HE WAS SERIOUSLY ILL AND NOT CODITION TO VISIT PATINT TO HOSPITAL.

PHYSIAN FRIEND ACCEPT THE REQUEST FROM DRUG DIECTOR FOE ADMISSION OF PATIENT IN HOSPITAL BUT HE WAS RECOVERY STAGE AT HOME ,SO NOT ADMIITED PATIENT BEHALF OF HIS NAME.

PHYSIAN PALY HIS ROLE GOOD MANNER given primary medical care to patient .