LAW AND ETHICS

A problem that occurs when using a duty-based approach to ethics is

• The primary emphasis on a person's individual rights

• Determining the greatest good for the greatest number of people

• The conflicting opinions regarding what our responsibility is

• understating the difference between what is fair and unfair

Moral conduct to regulate behavior of medical

professionals

• Justice-based

• principle of doing good

• laws

• medical etiquette

Ethics

• justice based

• rule out a diagnosis

• principle of doing good

• branch of philosophy

An illegal act is almost always

• hidden

• unethical

• performed with the full knowledge of the healthcare

• obvious

• all of the above

Laws that effect the medical profession

• often overlaps with ethics

• have a binding force

• are always fair to all persons

• are determined by a governmental authority

• a, b, and d

practical applications of moral standards that concern benefiting the patient

• medical etiquette

• laws

• applied ethics

• gut feelings

rules or actions prescribed by an authority

• ethics

• laws

• applied ethics

• medical etiquette

legal

theory that provides that the statute of limitations begins to run at

the time the injury is discovered or when the patient should have known

of the injury

• revoked

• reciprocity

• discovery rule

• standard are

an approval or sanction

• discovery rule

• Good Samaritan Law

• Prudent person rule

• endorsement

State law that protects healthcare professionals from liability when they provide emergency assistance/services

• endorsement

• good samaritan law

• reciprocity

• discovery rule