Patient have standing to sue the physician for negligence

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1. Assume you are a visiting nurse for a long-term care facility. The facility is a private home licensed to care for ambulatory patients who do not require extensive medical care. You visit the facility to check blood pressures, check feet, administer medication, and otherwise check the general health of residents. On one of your visits you learn that the facility's owner accepts valuable gifts from residents, such as jewelry, antique furniture, and handmade quilts. What should you do?

2. Assume you are a medical assistant in a reconstructive surgeon's office. Your employer is talented and successful and suggests publishing a brochure of some of his more dramatic "before and after" transformations. What factors will have to be considered?

3. You are a nurse in a clinic where a patient has been treated for several physical conditions related to alcoholism. The patient has not followed the physician's instructions to refrain from drinking, does not take prescription medications as ordered, and often misses appointments. During one visit, the patient tells the physician she is "not getting any better," and threatens to sue. Does the patient have a standing to sue the physician for negligence?

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