A patient's husband slipped and fell in your HIM reception area and now he is suing the facility. You have to prepare detailed written answers to a long list of questions and send them to your hospital attorney. You will spend the afternoon working on

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Interrogatories are written questions that one party sends to the other to help clarify the issues in a lawsuit. In this scenario, the patient's husband is suing the facility, so the hospital attorney would send the HIM department a long list of questions (interrogatories) to answer in writing. This would be the best choice for the task at hand. Affidavits, allocutions, and depositions are all legal terms, but they do not apply to the situation described.

A Patient's Husband Slipped and Fell in Your HIM Reception