Ethics and Morals
Pertaining to the distinction of "right" and "wrong".
What are Morals?
The unlawful taking of money or goods of another from their person or in their immediate presence by force or intimidation is called
What is Robbery?
The 3 elements of a valid contract are offer, acceptance and _________.
What is consideration?
The U.S. ______ creates federal law by passing legislation.
What is Congress?
Medical malpractice, liability and personal injury are all types of this.
What is insurance?
This term refers to the values by which an organization conducts its business.
What are organizational ethics?
The type of defamation of character involves spoken word.
What is Slander?
When a patient explicitly accepts a physician's offer of treatment, this type of contract is created.
What is an express contract?
This federal law prohibits discrimination in group health plan coverage based on genetic information.
What is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)?
Trespassing would be considered which type of tort?
What is an intentional tort?
The physician-patient relationship is created when the physician offers care to a patient, and the offer is ________.
What is accepted?
The unlawful killing without malice of a human being.
What is Manslaughter?
Rolling up a sleeve for a flu shot or vaccination is an example of what type of consent.
What is implied consent?
Governs organ donations for organ transplantation and the transfer of anatomical gifts of one's deceased body for use in the study of medicine.
What is the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)
For a particular tort, this means the patient must bring a lawsuit within two years of the injury.
What is the Statute of Limitations?
This refers to performing delegated clinical and administrative duties and working under a physician's direct supervision, consistent with your education, training, and experience.
What is Medical Assistant Scope of Practice?
Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position, resulting in injury to another person.
What is negligence?
This is a document written in advance, that states the patient’s wishes regarding end-of-life care.
What is a living will?
This federal law requires any health care provider accepting Medicare or Medicaid to inform the patient of their right to accept or refuse treatment, their rights regarding advance directives, and of any hospital or provider policies regarding withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining equipment.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act?
Standard of proof in a civil case.
What is "Preponderance of the evidence?"
The principle by which we as a society (or health care community) decide to allocate resources that are in scarce supply.
What is Distributive Justice?
Refers to the standard of proof in a criminal case.
What is "Beyond a reasonable doubt?"
The law assumes that an unconscious patient would consent to emergency care if the patient were conscious and able to consent.
What is implied consent?
This state law protects any person who provides emergency care in good faith without remuneration or expectation of remuneration.
What is the Good Samaritan Act?
Refers to the liability that arises from a failure to use due care and the standard of care expected from a healthcare provider.
What is professional liability?