Medical Vocb
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| Criminal Law | crimes committed against the state.
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| Civil Law | wrongful acts that result in physical injury to a person.
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| Tort | under civil law, a wrong committed by one person against another.
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| Prudent | careful or cautious.
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| 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 follows.
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| Liable | legally responsible.
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| Diagnosis | the identification of a medical condition.
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| Informed Consent | the legal condition in which a person agrees to terms , after he or she understands it all.
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| Resultant | resulting in action.
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| Defamatory | statement that causes injury to another's reputation.
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| Slander | a spoken statement of false information about another person.
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| Libel | written statement of false info about another person.
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| Assault | the threat to bodily harm to another
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| Battery | carrying out the threat of bodily harm to another.
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| Felony | a serious crime offense that carries a penalty of imprisonment for more then one year and possibly the death sentence.
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| Harassment | verbal or physical abuse of a person because of race of race, religion, age, gender, or disability.
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| Misrepresentation | untruth or lie.
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| False Impisonment | a civil tort in which a person is held or retained against their will.
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| Invasion of Privacy | a civil tort that unlawfully makes public knowledge of any private or personal info without consent of wronged person.
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| Reportable Conditions | situation that need to be reported such as abuse of a patient.
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| Negligence | failure to perform in a reasonably prudent manner.
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| Reasonable Care | legal obligation of health care workers. Giving care the way would in the same situation.
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| Sexual Harassment | an "unwelcome advance, request for sexual favors and other verbal and physical contact
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| HIIPA | Health Insurance Portability Act........ It regulates the sharing of personal info.
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| Bill of Rights | adopted by the AMA... the basic rights of a patient when in a care facility.
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| Living Will | An advanced Directive.... a will in which the signer request not to be kept alive by medical life support systems in the event of a terminal illness.
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| 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.
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| Scope of Practice | a legal set of directives developed by a state board that governs practice for a health care professional.
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| Dignity | the quality of value and worth.
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| Accountable | responsible for your actions.
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| Informed Consent | the legal condition in which a person degrees to terms, after he or she understands all the facts and implications of an action event.
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| Appropriate | suitable, correct.
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| Ethics | social values, conduct, description of what is right and wrong.
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| Codes of Ethics | represents ideal behavior for a group of people.
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