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23 Cards in this Set
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A promise taken by new doctors
"First, do no harm" |
Hippocratic Oath
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Identifying a disease
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Diagnosis
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Expected outcome of a disease
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Prognosis
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Alabama, where doctors did experiments on poor black people with syphilis
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Tuskegee Syphilis study
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Artificial kidney
used to clean the blood |
Dialysis
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Ethical questions on a big picture level.
Federal health care reform |
Macro Level- Health Policy
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Ethical questions on a mid-level
Hospital Policies/ insurance |
Middle Level- Organizational
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Ethical questions on a micro level
Individual patient care |
Micro Level- clinical
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effort to sequence the human genome (genome- the set of all genes in an organism)
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Human Genome Project
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A stem cell is one that can differentiate into other into other kinds of cells; embryonic stem cells can become any tissue in the body
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Embryonic Stem Cell
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Stem cell that can only become certain types of tissue
Bone marrow stem cells can only become red or white blood cells |
Adult Stem Cell
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Privacy Law that makes sure no one can access your medical records without your authorization
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HIPAA
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Not treating patients that you are required to treat by law
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Patient Dumping
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Intensive Care Unit
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ICU
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Telling about something unethical going on
"ratting" |
Whistle-blowing
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Unable to access medical care
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Disenfranchised
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You make your preferences for critical care known, before you are critically ill
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Advance Directives
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Patient able to make reasoned choices about their own health care
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Patient Competency
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Certain diseases carry negative associations
HIV/AIDS is stigmatized because it was originally associated with homosexuality and drug abuse |
Stigmatization
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Medical treatments that have no hope of curing the disease
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Futility
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Comfort care; not trying to aggressively cure a terminal disease, but only trying to keep the patient fed, comfortable, and pain free
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Palliative Care
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An institution devoted to palliative care
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Hospice
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Differences
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Disparity
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