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Today's Terms
Confidentiality
Definition:
The principle that prohibits physicians from disclosing confidential comments made to them by patients unless required to do so by law. The law may require physicians to violate patient confidentiality if the patient poses a serious threat to his or her own health and the well-being or that of others.
Assumption of risk
Definition:
In the law of negligence, as a defense, a defendant's allegation that the injured plaintiff recognized the danger of the plaintiff's course of action but, nonetheless, willingly chose to risk such danger.
Spinal cord abscess
Definition:
Spinal cord abscess is a disorder characterized by inflammation and a collection of infected material (pus) around the spinal cord.
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