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Vocabulary.....
legal/ethical issues, chapter 5 & 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| intitiates a lawsuit | Plaintiff |
| punishable up to 1 yr in a count or local pen | Misdemeanor |
| a serious crime, punishable to life or possible death. | felony |
| a system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes the actions if its members | Law |
| It establishes whether the plantiff can collect damages in the case of negligence. | Standard of Care |
| the laws as established by the outcome of former cases. What type of law? | Case law |
| a safeguard agaist possible malpractice | Defensive Medicine |
| providing assistance to one in need, and is protected by which law/act? | Good Samaritian Act |
| is an instruction from the pt. to all who might need to know that the pt. has empowered a rep to make health care decisions | Durable power of attorney |
| the great weight of the evidence required in a civil lawsuit for the trier of fact to decide in favor of one side or the other. | Preponderance of the evidence |
| the one being sued or changes are against is called what? | defendant |
| a supreme cour ruling to be binding on state courts if involving a constitutinal issue? | Supremacy Clause |
| Intentional torts means you are? | Libel |
| what does OSHA mean? | Occupational Saftey & Health Administration. requires employers to maintain sage working conditions |
| HIPAA privace Rule | permits the disclosure of personal health info needed for pt. care and other important purposes |
| FDA | Food & Drug Admistration. regualtes the pharmaceutical and medical industries |
| DEA | Drug Enforcenment Agentcy. has broad enforcement power over the distributation of narcotics and other drugs legal and illegal |
| having the mental competency to make healht care decisions | Capacity |
| medical procedures pertaining to sex reassignment of both transgendered & intersexual individuals | sex reassignment therapy |
| A process of replacing defective genes with normal or geneticaly altered genes | gene therapy |
| a process whereby a woman agress to carry and deliver a child for a contracted party | Surrogacy |
| killing an individual (or animal) without making him or her suffer from pain. | euthanasia |
| helping a terminally ill person to commit suicide | assisted suicide |
| a dispute over the morality, ethics, effectiveness and saftey of the vaccination process | Vaccination |
| attempts either to slow down or reverse the process of aging to maximize life span | life extension |
| brain surgery carried out to ease the complications associated with mental or behavioral problems | Psychosurgery |
| surgical procedurein which tissue or whole organ is transfered from one species to another | xenotransplantation |
| a process whereby the body of a seriously ill or deceased individual is frozen to stop the decomposition of tissue | cryonics |
| document perpared by pt.'s as a statement of their medical wishes | living will |
| consumption of food derived from genetically modified organisms | Genetically modified food |
| birth control using various contaceptive measures | contraception |
| overcoming the limitations of the body by artifical means | human enchancement |
| intoduction of semen into the oviduct or uterus by artifical means | Artifical insemination |
| Artifical termination of pregnancy | Abortion |
| Improving genetic qualites by means of selective breeding | Eugenics |
| prosecution must prove that the defendent committed the act in a criminal/federal case | Beyond a reasonable doubt |
| the study of the production of very low temp & behavior of materials at those temps | cryogenics |
| making an exact copy | Cloning |
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