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Medical Vocb
Term | Definition |
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Criminal Law | crimes committed against the state. |
Civil Law | wrongful acts that result in physical injury to a person. |
Tort | under civil law, a wrong committed by one person against another. |
Prudent | careful or cautious. |
Malpractice | failure of a professional person, such as a physician, to render proper services through ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows. |
Liable | legally responsible. |
Diagnosis | the identification of a medical condition. |
Informed Consent | the legal condition in which a person agrees to terms , after he or she understands it all. |
Resultant | resulting in action. |
Defamatory | statement that causes injury to another's reputation. |
Slander | a spoken statement of false information about another person. |
Libel | written statement of false info about another person. |
Assault | the threat to bodily harm to another |
Battery | carrying out the threat of bodily harm to another. |
Felony | a serious crime offense that carries a penalty of imprisonment for more then one year and possibly the death sentence. |
Harassment | verbal or physical abuse of a person because of race of race, religion, age, gender, or disability. |
Misrepresentation | untruth or lie. |
False Impisonment | a civil tort in which a person is held or retained against their will. |
Invasion of Privacy | a civil tort that unlawfully makes public knowledge of any private or personal info without consent of wronged person. |
Reportable Conditions | situation that need to be reported such as abuse of a patient. |
Negligence | failure to perform in a reasonably prudent manner. |
Reasonable Care | legal obligation of health care workers. Giving care the way would in the same situation. |
Sexual Harassment | an "unwelcome advance, request for sexual favors and other verbal and physical contact |
HIIPA | Health Insurance Portability Act........ It regulates the sharing of personal info. |
Bill of Rights | adopted by the AMA... the basic rights of a patient when in a care facility. |
Living Will | An advanced Directive.... a will in which the signer request not to be kept alive by medical life support systems in the event of a terminal illness. |
Durable Power of Attorney | a type of advance medical directive in which legal documents provide the power of attorney to another person in the case of an incapacitating medical condition. |
Scope of Practice | a legal set of directives developed by a state board that governs practice for a health care professional. |
Dignity | the quality of value and worth. |
Accountable | responsible for your actions. |
Informed Consent | the legal condition in which a person degrees to terms, after he or she understands all the facts and implications of an action event. |
Appropriate | suitable, correct. |
Ethics | social values, conduct, description of what is right and wrong. |
Codes of Ethics | represents ideal behavior for a group of people. |