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Chapter 1 Introducti
Law and Ethics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bioethicists | Specialist who consult with physicians, researchers and others to help them make difficult ethical decisions regarding patient care. |
| Bioethics | A discipline dealing with ethical implications of biological research methods and results, especially in medicine |
| Codes of Ethics | A system of principals intended to govern behavior -here, the behavior of those entrusted with providing care to the sick |
| Common Sense | Sound practical judgement |
| Compassion | The identification with an understanding of another's situation., feelings and motives. |
| Courtsey | The practice of good manners. |
| Critical Thinking | The ability to think analytically, using fewer emotions and more rationality |
| Defendant | The person or party against whom criminal or civil charges are brought in a lawsuit |
| Ethics | Standards of behaviors, developed as a result, of ones concept of right and wrong. |
| Ethics committees | Committees made up of individuals who are involved in a patients care, including health care, practitioners family members, clergy, and ethical issues in difficult cases. |
| Ethics Guidlines | Publications that detail a wide variety of ethical situations that professionals (in this case healthcare practitioners )might face in their work and offer principals for dealing with the situations in an ethical manners. |
| Etiquette | Standards of behavior consider to be good manners among members of a profession as they function as individuals in society. |
| Fraud | Dishonest or deceitful practices in depriving or attempting to deprive, another or his or her rights |
| Health Care Practitioner | Those who are trained to administer medica or health care to patients |
| Hippocratic Oath | A pledge for physicians developed by the Greek physician Hippocrates circa 400 B.C.E. |
| Law | Rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority |
| Liable | Legally responsible or obligated |
| Litigious | Prone to engage in law suites |
| Medical Ethicists | Specialist who consult with physicians, researchers and others to help them make difficult ethical decisions regarding patient care. |
| Moral Values | Ones personal concept of right and wrong, formed through the influence of the family, culture and society. |
| Plantiff | The person bringing the charges in a lawsuit |
| Precedent | Decisions made by judges in various courts that become rule of law and apply to future cases, even though they were not enacted by a legislature; also known as case law |
| Protocol | A code prescribing correct behavior in a specific situation, such as a situation arising in a medical office. |
| Summary Judgement | A decision made by the court in a lawsuit in response to a motion that please there is no basis for a trial |
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