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medical, legal, and ethical issues

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assault   unlawfully placing person in fear of immediate bodily harm  
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abandonment   unilateral termination of care  
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advance directive   specifies treatment if Pt is unconscious or unable to make decisions  
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Battery   Unlawfully touching a person  
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Certification   process that recognizes a person has met stanards  
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Competent   able to make decisions  
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Duty to act   responsibility to provide Pt care  
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Expressed consent   specific authorization to provide care expressed by the Pt  
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consent   granted permission  
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forcible restraint   confining a person from metal or physical action  
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implied consent   legal assumption that treatment was desired  
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Proximate causation   when a person who has duty abuses it and causes harm  
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medicolegal   relating to law or forensic medicine  
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Negligence   failure to provide standard of care  
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standard of care   accepted level of care consistent with training  
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kidnapping   removing by force  
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Public Health Information (PHI)   information on Pt health care status  
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morality   code of conduct that can be defined by society/culture  
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ethics   the philosophy of right and wrong  
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bioethics   the study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care  
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