Ethics

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Assult

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Any willful attempt or threat to inflict injury on the person of another, when coupled with the apparent ability to do so. any intentional display of force such as --would give the victim reason to fear or expect immediate bodily name.

Front 2

Battery

Back 2

any unlawful touching of another that is without justification or excuse.

Front 3

Defamation

Back 3

holding up a person to ridicule, scorn, or contempt in a respectable and considerable part of the community.

Front 4

False Imprisonment

Back 4

conscious restraint of the freedom of a person without paper, authorization, privilege, or consent.

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Fraud

Back 5

intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing a person to rely on the false information.

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Informed consent

Back 6

persons agreement to allow something( such as surgery) that is based on a full disclosure of the facts needed to make the decision intelligently.

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negligence

Back 7

failure to do something that a reasonable person guided by the ordinary considerations that ordinarily regulate human affairs would do or the doing of something a reasonable and prudent person would not do.

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Res Lpsa Loquitur

Back 8

meaning( the thing speaks for itself, legal theory requiring 3 elements:

1. that the type of injury did not occur except for negligence

2. that the activity was under the complete control of the defendant.

3. that the plaintiff did not contribute to his or her own injury in any way.

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Respondeat superior

Back 9

( meaning- let the superior respond) the physician, supervisor, or employer may be liable in certain cases for the wrongful acts of employees or subordinates.

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Tort

Back 10

private or civil wrong or injury, other breach of contract for which the court provides a remedy in the form of an action for damages.

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standard of care

Back 11

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Front 12

Implied consent

Back 12

The type of consent where patient simply arrives on the day of the procedure.