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vocabulary

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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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