The father of medicine, who wrote a statement of principles for his medical students to follow.
Who is Hippocrates?
100
Under this act, an employee must be returned to the same or equivalent position when he or she returns to work for a participating life event (example: birth of a child).
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act?
100
A federal program of care for the poor implemented by states.
What is Medicaid?
100
What is the failure or omission to perform professional duties to an accepted level.
What is negligence?
200
DEA registration numbers available to these individuals.
Who are physicians.
200
This act permits competent adults to allow posthumous use of their organs through a written document.
What is the Uniform and Anatomical Gift Act?
200
A patients request to either use or not use life-sustaining treatments and artificial nutritional support.
What is a living will?
200
Provides that a company with 20 or more employees must provide extended healthcare insurance to terminated employees for up to 18 months (usually at the employees expense).
What is COBRA?
300
An adult who acts in the court on behalf of a child in litigation.
Who is a guardian ad litem?
300
What is the act that protects workers and their families from financing problems resulting from employment-related injury, disease, or death.
What is the Workers' Compensation Act?
300
A facility with a homelike atmosphere where terminally ill patient find comfort until death.
What is hospice?
300
What is a federal program of healthcare coverage in which rationing of care may occur and healthcare coverage for the elderly and disabled.
What is Medicare?
400
Ownership of the medical record usually belong to this person.
Who is the physician?
400
What is the act of 1963 that makes it illegal for an employer to discriminate on the basis of gender.
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
400
The period of time that a patient has to file a lawsuit.
What is statute of limitations?
400
This company enforces the sale and distribution of legal drugs.
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
500
These individuals have the legal right to refuse food, treatment, and fluid if they are competent.
Who are patients?
500
What is the act of 1990 that requires an employer to make reasonable accommodations for disable employees.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
500
A breach of confidentiality that is considered unethical and illegal.
What is HIPPA?
500
This act provides for a medical examining board in each state, forbids the practice of medicine without a license, and establishes the baseline for practicing medicine in each state.