Legal Considerations
A written order naming a specific date, time, & reason to appear in court is
What is subpoena?
An ethical issue & has existing laws or regulations directly affecting the issue.
What is allocation of scarce or limited medical resources, abortion, assisted reproduction, fetal tissue research, and or genetic engineering?
Identify the incident as subject to criminal law or subject to civil law: The medical assistant gave the wrong medication, causing harm to the patient.
What is subject to civil law?
Cases that are required for public reporting by the medical provider.
What is knife wound, head injury, and or child abuse?
A patient's medical chart & the information in it are the property of.
What is the physician and the patient?
Any individual who administers, prescribes, or dispenses any controlled substance is required to register with.
What is Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)?
The highest authority in the United States.
What is Constitutional law?
A provider exposes dishonest conduct rendered by his colleague to the disciplinary board.
What is ethical?
Identify the incident as subject to criminal law or subject to civil law: A large amount of money was stolen.
What is subject to criminal law?
The four Ds of negligence.
What is duty, derelict, direct cause, and damage?
Refers to a physician's directive that specifies an individual's end-of-life wishes.
What is an advance directive?
The process by which the ovum is fertilized in a culture dish, allowed to grow, and then implanted into the uterus is known as.
What is In vitro fertilization?