Law And Ethics

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Res judicata

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"Things decided" - a matter already decided by judicial authority

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Plaintiff

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Person that institutes the lawsuit

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Defendant

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Person being sued

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Ethics

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Right and wrong conduct

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Abandonment

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The withdrawal of a physician from the care of a patient without reasonable notice of such discharge.

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Assault

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An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury

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Reasonable care

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The health care worker is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted reasonable as compared with fellow workers.

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Malpractice

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Negligence by a professional person

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Crime

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An act that violates a law

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Breach

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Breaking of a law promise or duty

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Statute of limitations

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Time established for filing a lawsuit

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Subpoena

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This commands a witness to appear at a trial or other proceeding and to give testimony

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Tort

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A wrong committed against another person's or the person's property

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False imprisonment

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Detaining someone against their will

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Invasion of privacy

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A violation of a person's right not to have his or her name, photograph, or private affairs exposed without giving consent

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Will

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Legal statement of how an individual's property is to be distributed after death.

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Law

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A rule of conduct made by a government body

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Negligence

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Failure to do something that a reasonable person would do under ordinary circumstances that ends up causing harm to another person

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Consent

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Person granted by a person voluntarily and in his right mind

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Defamation

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Injuring the name and reputation of another person by making false statements in a third person

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Libel

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Defamation of a person in writing

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Contract

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An agreement between two or more parties

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Respondeat superior

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Responsibility of an employer for the acts of an employee ("let the master speak")

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Non compos mentis

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Latin for "not of sound mind"

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Res gestae

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Latin for "things done; deeds"; the facts and circumstances attendant to the act in question

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Deposition

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Testimony of a witness under oat and written down before trial for possible use when the case comes to trial

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Civil law

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A statute that enforces private right and liabilities, as differentiated by criminal

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Battery

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A deliberate physical attack upon a person

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qui facit per alium facit per se

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Latin for "he who acts through another acts for himself"

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Bioethics

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the branch of study of moral issues, questions, and problems arising in the practice of medical and in biomedical research

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expert testimony

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A statement given concerning some scientific, technical or professional matter by a physician

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Assumption of risk

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Consent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of unpreventable results that treatment

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Fraud

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An intentional perversion of the truth

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Res ipsa loquitur

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Latin for "thing that speaks for itself" - the presumption or inference of negligence when an accident is otherwise unable to be explained in terms of ordinary and known experience.

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Breach of contract

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Failure to achieve an agreed upon result

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HIPAA

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A federal regulation that requires health care professionals to protect the privacy and confidentiality of patients' health information