Rights
One of the rights mentioned in the Declaration of Indepenence.
What is the Right to Life?
Commitment to act a certain way on basis of religious beliefs or professional code of conduct.
What is Duty?
Prohibition of a specific Abortion procedure that is done in the second trimester.
Legal inability to consent to medical treatment decisions.
Legal Responsibility
What is Liability?
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that there is an implicit what in the Bill of Rights.
What is the Right to Privacy?
What is Nonmalfeasance?
A promising area of research for medical treatment involves the use of embryonic what?
What is Stem Cells?
right to consent to medical treatment to individuals younger than 18 years of age.
What is an Emancipated Minor?
Official Permission to perform activity or practice.
What is the License?
The right to make independent decisions about their healthcare.
What is Autonomy?
What is Beneficence?
Making and altering or repairing genetic material.
What is Genetic Engineering?
An individual younger than 18 with the maturity to provide informed consent.
What is a Matured Minor?
Negligence by a profesional.
What is Malpractice?
Consent based on the understanding of a medical procedures and the outcome.
What is Informed Consent?
To be Faithful to Reasonable Expectations.
Reproducing genetically identical cells or individuals.
What is Cloning?
Physician tha is going away for a while a substitute may be hired on a temporary basis.
What is a locum tenens?
An order to a pharmacist to dispense a supply of medication.
Equitable distribution of goods and services to citizens.
What is the Right to the Means to Sustain Life?
A person who intercedes on behalf of another person
What is an Advocate?
What is Patient Self-Determination Act?
Failure to continue to provide medical care to a patient without proper notification
What is Abandonment?
Federal agency that enforces the Controlled Substance Act of 1970.
What is Drug Enforcement Administration?