Legal Responsibilities in Healthcare

________ are rules of conduct among people.

• liability

• laws

• ethics

• tort

________ is intentionally touching without permission.

• slander

• disclosure

• tort

• battery

A legal responsibility for causing harm is _______________.

• malpractice

• slander

• liability

• battery

What are rules of conduct, enforced by the government

• laws

• torts

• ethics

• ethics

The injured patient must show that the physician acted negligently in rendering care, and that such negligence resulted in injury. Must prove 1) a professional duty owed to the patient; 2) breach of such duty; 3) injury caused by the breach; and 4) resulting damages is known as ______________ or professional negligence.

• tort

• Code of Ethics

• liability

• medical malpractice

_________________ is a term when a person's freedom is intentionally violated.

• slander

• false imprisonment

• battery

• liability

_________________ is speaking false words about people.

• slander

• battery

• liability

• ethics

A civil wrong that unlawfully makes public knowledge of any private or personal information without the consent of the wronged person is what?

• Privacy

• Private

• Negligence

• Invasion of Property

The process of assuming that everyone in the same ethnic, racial or cultural group act the same, share the same beliefs or attitudes: a particular group is the same:

• ethnicity
• ethnocentric
• prejudice
• stereotyping

Classification of people based on physical or biological characteristics:

• culture
• ethnicity
• nationality
• race