Ethics
A set of principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
Ethics
A life sustaining intervention that replaces or aids kidney function.
Dialysis
Professional negligence
Malpractice
A federal health insurance program for people age 65 or older
Medicare
What was unique about the discovery of penicillin?
First antibiotic/created by accident
Ethical principles that an individual personally believes in.
Personal ethics
Operation in which a healthy organ or tissue from a donor is placed in the patient's body.
Transplants
A case in which a person is harmed because of another person's actions or failure to act.
Tort
A public health insurance program for some people or families with limited incomes and resources, including children, pregnant women, older adults, and people with disabilities.
Medicaid
How many bones are in the human body?
206
Ethical standards that govern individuals in a professional context.
Professional Ethics
The practice of deliberately ending a patient's life to relieve suffering.
Euthanasia
A law designed to ensure that a patient's medical information is private
HIPPA
Where do more than 50% of Americans get their health insurance?
Their Job/Employer
What are the 4 main nutrients?
Protein, Carbohydrates, Fat/Lipids, and water
Ethical Standards that are accepted by society as a whole
Societal ethics
Medical procedure in which an ovum (egg) is fertilized by sperm in a test tube or Petri dish for implantation in a woman's uterus.
In Vitro Fertilization
A voluntary agreement between two or more people
Contract
Who supplies that funding for Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and the VA?
The Government
What element is necessary to have in the muscles for them to be able to contract?
Sodium/Potassium/Calcium