Ethical terms
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| Defamation | Offense of injuring another's reputation
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| Common Law | Judge made law/common court decision
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| Civil Law | Enforcement of civil or private matters
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| Slander | Speaking falsely about another
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| Res ipsa loquitur | The thing speaks for itself
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| Fraud | Deliberate deception
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| Grossly negligent | Intentional failure to perform a duty
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| Vicariously liable | Legally obligated in place of someone else
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| Informed consent | Consent with understanding of risks
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| Malpractice | Professional misconduct
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| Bias | Temperament based on personal judgement
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| Liability | State or quality of being responsible for
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| Therapeutic | Pertaining to the act of healing
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| Tort | Private or civil wrong or injury
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| Libel | Defamatory words that are printed
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| Malfeasance | Doing an act that is wrongful and unlawful
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| Criminal Law | Deals with conduct against society
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| Reasonable cause | Acceptable degree of care
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| Due care | Adequate regard for someone's rights
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| Implied | Not indicated by direct words
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| Respondeat superior | Let the master speak
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| Ethics | Acceptable professional mode of behavior
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| Power of attorney | Authorizing another person to act as an agent
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| Third party payer | Patient not responsible for the bill
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| Litigation | Contest in court to enforce right
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| Critical Thinking | Purposepul, self-regulatory judgment resulting in interpretation, analysis, evaluation and inference
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| Values | Qualities or standards desirable or worthy of esteem in themselves
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| Define consequentialism. | Ethical school of thought where decisions are based on the consequences.
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| Define deontology. | Ethical school of thought that bases decision making on individual motives and morals rather than consequences.
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| Virtue Ethics | New ethical school of thought
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| What are the components of current law? | Common law, statutory law and judicial decisions
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| Which tort most often involves imaging professionals? | Negligence
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| What are the phases of a lawsuit? | Pleading phase, discovery phase and trial
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| Consequentialism is another name for? | Teleology
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| Beneficence | Performance of good acts.
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| Nonmaleficence | The avoidance for evil.
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| Negligence | Unintentional tort involving duty, breach of duty, injury and causation
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| Autonomy | The concept that patients are to be treated as individuals and informed about procedures to facilitate appropriate decisions.
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| Advance Directives | Predetermined (usually written) choice made to inform others of the ways in which patient wishes to be treated while incompetent.
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| Assault | Deliberate act wherein one person threatens to harm another without consent and victim feels attacker has ability to carry out the threat.
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| Battery | Touching to which the victim has not consented.
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| Veracity | Obligation to tell the truth and not to lie or deceive others.
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| Place of communication | The environment of the expectation of truth
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| Obligatory secret | A confidence that will result in harm if it is revealed.
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| HIPPA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
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| Defamation | Making of a false statement to a 3rd party that is harmful to the reputation .
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| Slander | Oral defamation
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| Libel | Written defamation
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| Life | The entire state of the living thing.
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| Sanctity of Human Life | The ideal underpinning the obligation not to take human life.
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| Euthanasia | Deliberately ending the life of another to end suffering.
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| Passive Euthanasia | The ending of another person's life by withdrawing treatment
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| Active Euthanasia | Ending of another person's life by an aggressive method to end suffering
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| Slippery Slope | When one act leads to another and then to another at an accelerating rate
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| Quality of Life | Encompasses essential traits that make life worth living.
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| Durable Power of Attorney | Document executed by competent person to appoint another (an agent) to make health care decisions when principal becomes incompetent
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