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Accountability | taking responsibility for your actions,being answerable to someone for something you have done.
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Attitude | a manner of thought or feeling expressed in person's behavior.
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Autonomy | personal liberty, right of self-government.
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Behavior | what people do and say
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Code of Ethics | a set of standards for behavior based on values.
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Confidentiality | protecting the privacy of any confidential information,spoken or written.
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Damages | monetary compensation awarded by a court for an injury caused by the act of another.
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Defendant | an individual, company, or institution sued or accused in a court of law.
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Deposition | declaration, pretrial statement of a witnessunder oath
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Discrimination | seeing a difference, prejudicial treatment of a person.
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Empathy | Capacity to share and understand the feeling or ideas of another.
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Ethics | behavior that is based on values,how we make judgments in regard to right and wrong.
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evidence | all the means by which any alleged matter of fact,the truth of which is submitted to investigation at trial, is established or disproved
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expert witness | a witness who has special knowledge of the subject about which he or she is to testify.
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Fidelity | doing what one promises.
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Hostile environment | a sexual oriented atmosphere or pattern behavior that is determined to be sexual harassment.
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Implied contract | a non explicit agreement that impacts some aspects of the employment relationship.
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Informed consent | a doctrine that states that before a patient is asked to consent to a risky or invasive diagnostic or treatment.
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Liability | being responsible either for damages resulting from an injurious act or from discharging an obligation or debt
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Medical Malpractice | professional negligence of a health care professional, failure to meet a professional standard of care.
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Negligence | failure to satisfactory perform one's legal duty, such another person incurs some injury
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Philosophy | principles
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plaintiff | the person who brings a lawsuit against another
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principles | basic truths, moral code of conduct
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Quid Pro Quo | involves making conditions of employment(like promotions) contingent on the victim providing sexual favors
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respondeat superior | legal doctrine that imposes liability upon the employer.
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respect | holding a person in esteem or honor, having appreciation and regard for another.
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Retaliation | payback
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Scope of Practice | a legal description of what a specific health professional may and may not do
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Sexual Harassment | unwanted,unwelcome behavior ,sexual in nature
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Standard of care | the legal duty one owes to another according to the circumstances of particular case
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Statute | a law passed by the legislature and signed by the governor at the state level and the president at the federal level.
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Statute of Limitations | the time within which a plaintiff must bring a civil suit.
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Tact | use of discretion regarding feeling of others
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Tort | a wrong against another person or his property that is not a crime but for which the law provides a remedy
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Values | Personal beliefs about the worth of a principle standard,or quality.
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Values Clarification | Examination of our value system.
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Work Ethics | moral values regarding word
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