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Name some examples of the importance of studying medical laws & ethics?
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1. Helps you function at the highest professional level & provide competent, compassionate health care.
2. Help you avoid legal issues. 3. To understand how legal & ethical issues affect patients. |
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What personal characteristics are common in succesful healthcare practitioners?
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Courtesy, compassion and common sense.
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What are some examples of medical Terminology that have led to increased legal and ethical dilemmas?
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1. Who have rights to the couple's frozen embryos.
2. Should people who are brain dead be kept alive. 3. Patients with aids must fight to retain confidentiality. |
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Discuss the consumers role in today's medical setting from a legal/ethical standpoint?
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Consumers will ask questions like how much will medical treatment cost, want complete info on their condition and who can best treat their condition?
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How has the Internet influenced law & ethics in the U.S.?
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The Internet can have misleading medical info. and prescriptions may be prescribed illegally.
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List 3 areas wher health care Practioner can gain insight studying law & Ethics?
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1. Helps them funtion at the highest professional level, providing competent, compassionate health care.
2. Help avoid legal entanglements. |
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Individual involved in the patients care. A committee formed of health care staff, family, clergy to review difficult issues?
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Ethics Committee
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Dishonest or deceitful practices in depriving or attempting to deprive another person's rights?
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Fraud
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A rule of conduct of action prescribed/formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority;protects the public and causes a smooth function society?
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Law
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A pledge for physicians developed by the Greek physician Hippocrates Circa 400 B.C.?
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Hipporatic Oath.
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Beliefs formed through the influence of family, culture and society?
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Moral Values.
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Name 5 bioethical issues of concern in today's society?
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1. Stem cell research
2. Animal used for research 3. Is organs dehumanizing 4. Should individuals own rights to their own body cells 5. Should government regulate "genetic research" |
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A code prescribing correct behavior in specific situations like medical office?
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Protocol
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This means prone to ingage in lawsuits?
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Litigious.
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A decision made by a court in a lawsuit in response to a motion that pleads there is no basis for a trial?
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Summary Judgement.
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Standard of behavior, developed as a result of one's concept of right & wrong?
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Ehics
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What is often as the "3 C's"
most vital to the professional sucess of health care practioners? |
1. Courtesy
2. Compassion 3. Common Sense |
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This means legally responsible?
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Liable
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Standard of behavior considedred good manners among members of a profession as they function in a society?
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Etiquette.
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A case that serves as a model for future cases?
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Precedent.
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A system of principles intended to govern to behavior of those entrusted w/providing care to sick?
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Code of Ethics.
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A discipline dealing with the ethical implications of biological research methods & results especially in medicine?
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bioethics.
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Specialist who consult with physicians & other to help w/ difficult ethical decisions?
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Medical ethicist/bioethicist
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A code of "ethics" for members of the "American Med. Association written in 1847?
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American Med. Association Principles.
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Those who are trained to administer medical/health care to patients?
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Health Care Practioners
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