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medical law and ethics

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show Physician/employer also assumes responsibility for employees threw this doctrine.  
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Fact   show
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Malpractice   show
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Negligence   show
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show When a person is injured they sue under tort law('A wrongful act against another person") the unintentional tort of negligence is the most often cause of lawsuits for healthcare professionals.  
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Fact   show
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show Malpractice is the wrongdoing or negligence committed by professional person, such as a medical professional.  
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show Both actions and inaction's (omissions) can be considered negligence,Failure to provide clear instructions regarding tx or a medications use is an omission that can result in a disastrous outcome for the pt.  
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show refers to performing wrong and illegal act. also out of there scope  
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Misfeasance   show
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show The failure to perform a necessary action. Same as mission there not doing there job at all.  
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The four D's of Negligence   show
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The D's - Duty   show
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The D's -Dereliction of duty   show
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The D's -Direct or proximate cause   show
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show Caused by the defendant for which compensation (financial or otherwise) is due.  
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show Meaning "the thing speaks for itself", applies to the law of negligence. This doctrine tells us that the breach(neglect) of duty is so obvious that it doesn't need further explanation it "speaks for itself"  
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show Physician or agent  
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Compensatory Damages   show
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Punitive Damages   show
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show Refer to slght or token payment to a pt to demonstrate that while there may not have been any physician harm don, the pts right were violated the award can be one dollar.  
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show If the pt's death has been caused by the physician's negligence, the deceased person's dependent and heirs may sue for wrongful death.  
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show Is the deliberate concealment of the facts from another person for unlawful or unfair gain, Fraud is illegal,unethical and immoral.  
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show Every medical provider should be familiar with statues that affect their particular discipline. A board that has rules and regulations.  
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Immunity for charitable organization   show
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Affirmative Defense   show
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Assumption Of Risk   show
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show Refers to conduct on the part of the plaintiffs that is a contributing cause of an injury.If it is determind that the pt was fully,or in part,at fault for the injury,the pt may be barred from recovering monetary damages,depending on the state damages.  
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Comparative Negligence   show
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show 'The thing has been decided' or 'a matter decided by judgment", Cant sue the same case again for the same error.  
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Promise to cure   show
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Law of Agency   show
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Altered Medical Records   show
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Settlement   show
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Liability Insurance   show
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Two major types of liability are?   show
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Claims-made Insurance   show
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Occurrence Insured   show
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show Physicians carry malpractice insurance to cover damages they must pay if they are sued for malpractice and lose and protects anybody that s out of there license board.  
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show That more and more tests and procedures will be ordered for such pt to order a lawsuit.  
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Vital Statistics   show
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show Also called the death rate, is the ratio of the number of deaths to total population in a given location.  
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Morbidity Rate   show
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show The physician duty is to report these events the duty owed the public these duties include, births,stillbirths,deaths,knife wound,animal bites,disease,drug abuse,rape,gunshot,abuse of children,elders,spouse.marriage divorces.  
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show Facts,Figures and statistics represents information about the individual pts life.  
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show A physician must sign the certificate of live birth, for a hospital birth the certificate is filed by the hospital at the county clerk's office in the stae which the birth took place, always must report certain diseases in newborns.  
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show Physicians sign a certificate indicating the cause of the natural death, the physician must include in the certification,-The date and time of death -the cause of death,injures,complications -How long the deceased person was treated for the decease .  
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Communicable Diseases   show
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Communicable Diseases report should include?   show
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show passed by congress in 1986 reqiures a physician or health care administration to report all vaccine administration and adverse reactions to vaccines and toxiods  
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Required Children Vaccine   show
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show Requires reporting of all child abuse cases,to brgin to investigate questions of neglect and child abuse the state must have probable cause, which is a reasonable belief that something improper has happened.  
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show Elder abuse is defined in the amendment to the older American act 1987  
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show An agency within department of health and human services,ultimately enforces drug prescription and over the counter sales and distribution,The FDA came into existence with the passage of food,drug 7 cosmetic act of 1938.  
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