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law/ethics med term
law/ethics medical terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A person accused of a tort/crime who is required answer in a legal action or suit | Defendant |
| The expectation that an individual may be called to account for actions taken which were consistent with the responsibilities for which they contracted by virtue of employment/learner experience | Accountability |
| The occarance speaks for itself | Ioquitur |
| Being unqualified/inadequate to perform a duty/duties | Incompetence |
| A person having special training/experience who assists a judge/jury in their decision-making process | Expert witness |
| The carrying out of physically-threatened harm | Battery |
| One who commences a legal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his/her rights; the complaining party | Plaintiff |
| A spoken defamation of character; an untruthful oral statement about a person that subjects that person to ridicule or contempt | Slander |
| A legal process charging a party with a wrong done or a crime committed | Complaint |
| Improper,careless,or ignorant treatment; an act of negligence as applied to a professional person such as a physician,nurse, or dentist | Malpractice |
| To be legally bound, as to make good any loss or damage that occurs in a transaction; to be answerable; to be responsible | Liable |
| A wrong that violates a person's right to be free from unauthorized intrusion | Invasion of privacy |
| A statement made to a lawyer,physician,or clergyman in confidence and is implicitly understood that it shall remain a secret | Confidential communication |
| The degree of negligence in which each of the parties may be shown to have been responsible for the injury complained of | Neglegence |
| An illegal act against society | Crime |
| The supervisor,instructor,or physician is absent while the ST is performing their responsibilities or they are not near enough to the tech to give assistance | Lack of proper supervision |
| Wrongs of slander and libel | Defamation |
| Confidence and satisfaction in oneself | Self-esteem |
| A serious crime punishable by law with penalties ranging from imprisionment to death | Felony |
| Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group | Culture |
| A lawsuit | Litigation |
| Unlawful threat to harm another physically | Assault |
| Personal, subjective responses to a person or situation | Feelings |
| Emotion marked by dread,apprehension or alarm | Fear |
| Physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension | Stress |
| Mental position, feeling, or emotion toward a fact or state | attitude |
| Putting oneself in another's position; participating in another's feelings or ideas | Empathy |
| Gestures, mannerisms, body movements, bearing, and physical appearance of an individual which communicates information and attitudes to the reciever | Body language |
| Receiving, processing, and evaluating sounds | Listening |
| 1 that belongs to the same group in society, determined by age,grade or status | Peer |
| Process by which info is exchanged between individuals thru a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior | Communication |
| During surgery | Intaoperative |
| Before surgery | Preoperative |
| To prevent the occurance of a disease or illness | Prophylactic |
| Occurs immediately before,during,& after surgery | Perioperactive |
| To determine the nature and cause of illness | Diagnostic |
| To put on | Don |
| Branch of medicine dealing w/manual & operative procedures to correct deformaties/defects, & to repair injury,& to diagnose/cure disease | Surgery |
| All personnel that contribute to the care of pts, whether directly or indirectly | Health care team |
| To relieve or alliviate symptoms, w/o curing the underlying cause of illness | Pallitive |
| a member of the surgical team who supplies the needs of the scrub team | Circulator |
| Surgical care performed under various types of anethesia w/o overnight hospitalization | Ambulatory surgery |
| To regain the pts health & strength so that the pt may resume normal daily activities | Restorative |
| member of the surgical team who scrubs their hands & arms/dons sterile gloves & gown; responsible for sterile supplies & equipment w/in the sterile field | Scrub person |
| Specially trained physicain who provides anesthesia to surgical patients | Anesthesiologist |
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