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Legal Concepts<br />

• Res ipsa loquitur<br />

– But for the failure to exercise due care the<br />

<strong>in</strong>jury would not have occurred<br />

• Delay <strong>in</strong> diagnosis <strong>and</strong> subsequent death<br />

• Respondeat superior<br />

– An employer is liable for the wrong of an<br />

employee if it was <strong>com</strong>mitted with<strong>in</strong> the<br />

scope of employment

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