I FOUND THIS HUMERUS
This treatment attempts to reduce the effects of a disease or condition but does not cure disease.
What is Palliative Treatment?
The absence of illness or disease and a state of being in which the individual feels well and is able to carry out the daily functions of life with no difficulties or pain.
What is Health?
The word Veracity means_____________.
What is Truthfulness?
A claim that is expected to be honored.
What is a Right?
A court order to produce documents or records.
What is Subpoena duces tecum?
Medical care that is provided on an outpatient basis.
What is Ambulatory Care?
This historical physician is considered to be the first to see illness as a results of physical and environmental factors.
Who is Hippocrates?
The word Fidelity means_______________.
What is Faithfulness?
Beliefs about what it right and what is wrong.
What are Morals?
The federal agency that enforces the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
Who is the Drug Enforcement Agency?
A set payment provided by managed care insurance per patient per month regardless of the amount of service the patient receives.
What is Capitation?
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The ability to begin or carry through on a plan of action independently.
What is Initiative?
A legal document that specifies the kind of medical treatment a patient wants or does not want if he or she becomes incapacitated.
What is a Living Will?
Failure to act (or refrain from acting) as a reasonably prudent person would in similar circumstances.
What is Negligence?
A less serious crime, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for less than one year
What is a Misdemeanor?
A list of prescription drugs covered or preferred by a managed care company.
What is a Formulary?
The unethical practice of sharing fees with colleagues, especially for making referrals.
What is Fee Splitting?
A legal document that names an agent to make decisions about a person's medical care if he or she becomes unable to make wishes known.
What is a Health Care Proxy?
A serious crime punishable by death or imprisonment.
What is a Felony?
A legal Doctrine making an employer liable for the negligent acts of employees.
What is Respondeat Superior?
Considering the whole; in medicine, considering the entire person when providing health care.
What is Holistic care?
A person who intercedes on another person's behalf.
What is Advocate?
A medical order signed by a physician that relieves health care personnel from the obligation to resuscitate a patient who stops breathing or heart stops.
What is a DNR?
An order to a pharmacist to dispense a supply of medication.
What is a Prescription?
Agreement to a medical procedure based on understanding of the procedure and its possible consequences and effects.
What is Informed Consent?