Title: Describe negligence and how courts determine negligence.
Course: Emergency Medical Telecommunications (14055-V) > Section: Understanding Legal and Liability Issues in EMD

Description should include

- the definition of negligence
- simple negligence
- gross negligence
- criminal negligence
- duty to act
- breach of duty
- injury/damage to patient
- proximate cause/causation.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is gross negligence, and who will receive the civil charge for committing it?
- What is the duty to act, and to what staff does it apply?