Mixed Bag
"Legalese"
Issues in Bioethics
Death and Dying
Abbreviations
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A federal program implemented by states to provide financial assistance for the indigent
What is Medicaid?
100
Less serious offenses than felonies; punsihable by fines or imprisonment of up to one year. These include traffic violations, and disturbing the peace
What are misdemeanors?
100
Ability to understand the feelings of another person without actually experiencing teh pain or distress that person is going through
What is empathy? (Sympathy is feeling pity for someone else)
100
Another term for voluntary euthanasia
What is mercy killing?
100
This act was a sweeping reform law that affects vritually everyone in the US healthcare system, it has four overall objectives. Violating this law can result in fines, and possibly up to 10 yrs in prison.
What is HIPAA? Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
200
Overrule
What is preempt? In most situations federal law preempts state law. (Exceptions: if no federal law relating to topic, states can regulate; if court determines state law does not conflict, then state law can be enforced)
200
A civil injury, or wrongful act, committed against another person or property that results in harm and is compensated in money damages
What is a tort? (Negligence is unintentional tort; intentional torts include battery, assault, fraud, false imprisonment, defamation of character, fraud, invasion of privacy)
200
Legislation or regulation stating that hospitals and healthcare professionals are not required to assist with such procedures as abortion and sterilization
What is a conscience clause? (Recall that employees can not be discriminated against based on this issue; but they should make their employers aware of their preference)
200
Vegetative condition
What is comatose?
200
Patients name, age, gender, SSN, zip code, email and medical diagnosis are all examples of this
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)? Under HIPAA, patients must grant consent to disclose their PHI via a NPP-notice of privacy practices. A patient can refuse to sign a NPP.
300
Made known
What is disclosed? (State open record laws sometimes allow disclosure of medical record if decided to be in best interest of public)
300
Confidential information that has been told to a physician (or attorney) by the patient
What is priviledged communication?
300
A group of identical matching cells that come from a single common cell
What is a clone?
300
Stiffness that occurs in a dead body
What is rigor mortis? (Criteria for death: loss of heartbeat, significant drop in body temperature, loss of body color, rigor mortis)
300
Congress mandated this agency to develop detailed privacy standards
What is HHS (Health and Human Services)?
400
The use of communications and information technologies to provide healthcare services to people at a distance
What is telemedicine?
400
State laws that help protect healthcare professionals and ordinary citizens from liability while giving emergency care to accident victims
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
400
Process of combining ovum and sperm outside of a woman's body
What is in-vitro fertilization?
400
Most states accept this definition of death
What is brain-oriented death? (Irreversible cessation of all brain function)
400
Confidential cousnleing referral service designed to help employees and/or their family members assess a problem such as alcoholism
What is an EAP program? (Employee Assistance Program)
500
A person who acts on behalf of another person
What is proxy?
500
Legal theory that provides that the statute of limitations begins to run at hte time the injury is discovered or when the patient should have know of the injury
What is discovery rule?
500
Unborn fetus between second and twelfth week after conception
What is an embryo?
500
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
What are the five stages of dying?
500
Fully computerized method of record keeping
What is EMR (electronic medical record)?
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