NCCT Practice Test 2024 Most Frequently Tested
Questions and Answers
Right and Wrong conduct is known as
ethics
The most common type of medical tort liability is
negligence
A person being sued is called the
defendant
The withdrawal of a physician from the care of a patient without reasonable
notice of such discharge from the case by the patient is
abandonment
An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another is
assault
The health worker is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted
reasonable as compared with fellow workers. This is called
reasonable care
Negligence by a professional person is called
malpractice
An act that violates criminal law is called
crime
The breaking of a law, promise, or duty is called
breach
The ability to see things from another person's point of view is
empathy
The time established for filing law suits is
statute of limitations
A writ that commands a witness to appear at a trial or other proceeding and to
give testimony is a
subpoena
A wrong committed against another person or the person's property is a
tort
Holding or detaining a person against his will is
false imprisonment
A violation of a person's right not to have his or her name, photograph, or private
affairs exposed of made public without giving consent is
invasion of privacy
A major crime for which greater punishment is imposed other than a
misdemeanor is
felony
One who institutes a lawsuit is
plaintiff
A legal statement of how an individual's property is to be distributed after death
is
will
,Information given by a patient to medical personnel which cannot be disclosed
without consent of the person who gave it is
privileged communication
A rule of conduct made by a government body is
law
Failure to do something that a reasonable person would do under ordinary
circumstances that ends up causing harm to another person or a person's
property is
negligence
Permission granted by a person voluntarily and in his right mind is
consent
Injuring the name and reputation of another person by making false statements to
a third person is
defamation
An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of some
definite thing is
contract
Lack of physical or mental fitness is known as
incompetence
The final decision of a court in an action or suit is
judgment
Responsibility of an employer for the acts of an employee is
libel
A Latin term signifying that a person is not of sound mind is
non compos mentis
A person who is no longer under the care, custody, or supervision of a parent is
called
emancipated minor
An impartial panel established to listen to and investigate patient's complaints
about medical care of excessive fees is called a what committee
medical grievance
Latin for "things done; deeds", the facts and circumstances attendant to the act
in question would be called
res gestae
Testimony of a witness under oath and written down before trial for possible use
when the case comes to trial is
deposition
A statute that enforces private right and liabilities, as differentiated from criminal
law is called a
civil law
Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty is called
breach of duty
A deliberate physical attack upon a person is called
battery
Latin for "he who acts through another acts for himself: is called
qui facit per alium facit per se
, The branch of study of moral issues, questions, and problems arising in the
practice of medicine and in biomedical research is called
bioethics
A statement given concerning some scientific, technical, or professional matter
by an expert, such as physician is called
expert testimony
A patient's failure to act prudently and reasonably, or doing that which a
reasonable person would not do under similar circumstances in called
contributory negligence
Consent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of
unpreventable results of that treatment is called
assumption of risk
Conduct, courtesy, and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by
medical professionals are known as
medical etiquette
An intentional perversion of truth of the purpose of inducing another in reliance
upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or surrender a legal
right is called
fraud
To interrupt or discontinue a suit temporarily with the intention of resumption at a
later date, or to ask for a continuance is called a
suspension
Latin for "things decided"- that is, a matter already decided by judicial authority is
called
res judicata
That which is natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new
independent cause, produces an event, and without which the injury would not
have occurred is called
proximate cause
The presumption or inference of negligence when an accident is otherwise
unable to be explained in terms of ordinary and known experience is called
res ipsa loquitur
Failure to achieve an agreed upon result, even when the highest degree of skill
has been used, is called
breach of contract
What license must a physician have to dispense, prescribe or administer
controlled substances
narcotic
Unauthorized disclosure of information regarding any patient to a third party may
result in
invasion of privacy
Medical research is often published in medical journals that are evaluated by
members of the medial community through a process known as
peer review
Questions and Answers
Right and Wrong conduct is known as
ethics
The most common type of medical tort liability is
negligence
A person being sued is called the
defendant
The withdrawal of a physician from the care of a patient without reasonable
notice of such discharge from the case by the patient is
abandonment
An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another is
assault
The health worker is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted
reasonable as compared with fellow workers. This is called
reasonable care
Negligence by a professional person is called
malpractice
An act that violates criminal law is called
crime
The breaking of a law, promise, or duty is called
breach
The ability to see things from another person's point of view is
empathy
The time established for filing law suits is
statute of limitations
A writ that commands a witness to appear at a trial or other proceeding and to
give testimony is a
subpoena
A wrong committed against another person or the person's property is a
tort
Holding or detaining a person against his will is
false imprisonment
A violation of a person's right not to have his or her name, photograph, or private
affairs exposed of made public without giving consent is
invasion of privacy
A major crime for which greater punishment is imposed other than a
misdemeanor is
felony
One who institutes a lawsuit is
plaintiff
A legal statement of how an individual's property is to be distributed after death
is
will
,Information given by a patient to medical personnel which cannot be disclosed
without consent of the person who gave it is
privileged communication
A rule of conduct made by a government body is
law
Failure to do something that a reasonable person would do under ordinary
circumstances that ends up causing harm to another person or a person's
property is
negligence
Permission granted by a person voluntarily and in his right mind is
consent
Injuring the name and reputation of another person by making false statements to
a third person is
defamation
An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of some
definite thing is
contract
Lack of physical or mental fitness is known as
incompetence
The final decision of a court in an action or suit is
judgment
Responsibility of an employer for the acts of an employee is
libel
A Latin term signifying that a person is not of sound mind is
non compos mentis
A person who is no longer under the care, custody, or supervision of a parent is
called
emancipated minor
An impartial panel established to listen to and investigate patient's complaints
about medical care of excessive fees is called a what committee
medical grievance
Latin for "things done; deeds", the facts and circumstances attendant to the act
in question would be called
res gestae
Testimony of a witness under oath and written down before trial for possible use
when the case comes to trial is
deposition
A statute that enforces private right and liabilities, as differentiated from criminal
law is called a
civil law
Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty is called
breach of duty
A deliberate physical attack upon a person is called
battery
Latin for "he who acts through another acts for himself: is called
qui facit per alium facit per se
, The branch of study of moral issues, questions, and problems arising in the
practice of medicine and in biomedical research is called
bioethics
A statement given concerning some scientific, technical, or professional matter
by an expert, such as physician is called
expert testimony
A patient's failure to act prudently and reasonably, or doing that which a
reasonable person would not do under similar circumstances in called
contributory negligence
Consent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of
unpreventable results of that treatment is called
assumption of risk
Conduct, courtesy, and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by
medical professionals are known as
medical etiquette
An intentional perversion of truth of the purpose of inducing another in reliance
upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or surrender a legal
right is called
fraud
To interrupt or discontinue a suit temporarily with the intention of resumption at a
later date, or to ask for a continuance is called a
suspension
Latin for "things decided"- that is, a matter already decided by judicial authority is
called
res judicata
That which is natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new
independent cause, produces an event, and without which the injury would not
have occurred is called
proximate cause
The presumption or inference of negligence when an accident is otherwise
unable to be explained in terms of ordinary and known experience is called
res ipsa loquitur
Failure to achieve an agreed upon result, even when the highest degree of skill
has been used, is called
breach of contract
What license must a physician have to dispense, prescribe or administer
controlled substances
narcotic
Unauthorized disclosure of information regarding any patient to a third party may
result in
invasion of privacy
Medical research is often published in medical journals that are evaluated by
members of the medial community through a process known as
peer review
