Medical Law Terminology
Taken by all Providers/Doctors during their graduation ceremony from medical school. It sets the framework for ethical principles related to the practice of medicine.
What is the Hippocratic Oath
Infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard.
What is Breach
Making a false spoken statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone.
What is Slander
Gives patients rights over their health care information.
What is HIPAA
The performance of a lawful action in an illegal or improper manner. (ex: leaving a freshly mopped floor wet with no signs, causing someone to slip and fall)
What is Misfeasance
An action that wrongly causes harm to someone but is not a crime and is dealt with in a civil court.
What is Tort
Relating to actions that purposely intend to deceive.
What is Fraudulent
An offense that is considered less serious than a felony and carries a lesser penalty, usually a fine or imprisonment for less than one year.
What is Misdemeanor
Put in place to reform the healthcare system by providing americans with affordable, quality health insurance.
What is Affordable Care Act
The failure to do something that a reasonably prudent individual would do under similar circumstances. (ex: drunk driving and causing an accident)
What is Negligence
Performance of an unlawful, wrongful act (ex: If someone died after poor treatment by a licensed doctor)
What is Malfeasance
An intentional wrongful act by a person or entity who means to cause harm, or who knows, or is reasonably certain, that harm will result from the act.
A crime declared by statute to be more serious than a misdemeanor and deserving of a more severe penalty. Usually serving more than a year in a penitentiary.
What is a felony
OSHA stands for
What is Occupational Safety & Health Administration
A false accusation that is made with malicious intent to hurt the reputation of a person who is living or the memory of a person who is deceased, resulting in public embarrassment, contempt, ridicule, or hatred.
What is Libel
A clear and voluntary indication of preference or choice, usually oral or written, and freely given in circumstances where the available options and their consequences have been made clear.
What is Informed Consent
A doctrine in tort law that makes an employer liable for the wrong of an employee
What is Respondeat Superior.
Trying or threatening to hurt someone physically
What is Assault
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A formal statement that someone who has promised to tell the truth makes so that the statement can be used in court.
What is a Deposition
The process of taking legal action.
What is Litigation
The body of law in the form of decisions, rules, regulations, and orders created by admin agencies under the direction of the executive branch of the government, used to carry out the duties of such agencies.
What is Administrative Law
Intentional touching or using force in a harmful manner, without the person's consent.
What is Battery
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What is Oral cavity, Pharynx, Esophagus, Pyloric Sphincter, Small Intestine, Large Intestine & Colon
Failure to perform a task, duty or undertaking that one has agreed to perform or has a legal duty to perform.(ex: a nurse failing to either call for a doctor or help by using a defibrillator when a patient goes into cardiac arrest.)
What is Nonfeasance