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Medical Liability
Medical Liability Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Criminal Law | Crimes committed against the state. |
| Civil Law | Wrongful acts that result in physical injury to a 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 follow. |
| Liable | Legally responsible. |
| Diagnosis | The identification of a medical condition. |
| Informed Consent | The legal condition in which a person agrees to the terms, after he or she understands all the facts and implications of an action or event. |
| Resultant | Resulting from an action. |
| Defamatory | Statement that causes injury to another person's reputation. |
| Slander | A spoken statement of false information about another person |
| Libel | Written statement of false information about another person. |
| Assault | The threat to bodily harm another. |
| Battery | Carrying out the threat of bodily harm to another. |
| Felony | Serious crime offense that carries a penalty of imprisonment for more than one year and possibly a death sentence. |
| Harassment | Verbal or physical abuse of a person because of race, religion, age, gender, or disability. |
| Misrepresentation | Untruth or lie |
| False Imprisonment | 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 information without consent of the 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 in the way others would in that situation. |
| Sexual Harrassment | An "unwelcome advance", request for sexual favors and other verbal or physical contact. |
| HIPAA ( Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act) | It regulates the sharing of personal information |
| Bill of Rights | Adopted by the American Hospital Association (AHA) The basic rights of a patient when in a care facility. |
| Living Will | A will in which the signer requests not to be kept alive by medical life-support systems in the event of 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. |
| Advanced Directive | Directions given by a patient to a doctor that is written in advance, in case of an accident where the patient cant tell the doctor what they want to be done. |
| Appropriate | Suitable, correct |
| Ethics | Social values, conduct description of what is right and wrong. |
| Code of Ethics | Represents ideal behavior for a group of people. |
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Mikayla112
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