10 GCA § 11102: Definitions.

As used in this Chapter:

(a) Health Professional means any person licensed or certified to practice the healing of arts within the territory of Guam, to include podiatry, pharmacy, nursing, as defined in §27000 of the Government Code of Guam.

(b) Health Care Institution means any health care facility or health maintenance organization operated primarily to provide the service of health professionals.

(c) Malpractice means any tort or breach of contract based on health care or professional services rendered or which should have been rendered, by a health professional or health care institution to a patient.

(d) Benevolent gesture means any action which conveys a sense of compassion or commiseration emanating from human impulses.

(e) Family means the spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, parent, grandparent, stepmother, stepfather, child, grandchild, brother, sister, half brother, half sister, adopted children of parent, or spouse's parent of the injured party.