Medical Therapeutics - Legal and Ethical Responsibilities

any care that results in physical harm or pain, or mental anguish

• slander

• abuse

legal document designed to indicate a person's wishes regarding care in case of a terminal illness or during the dying process

• advance directive

• living will

someone who has the power or authority to act as the representative of another

• agent

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includes a threat or attempt to injure/ includes the unlawful touching of another person without consent

• negligence

• assault and battery

laws that focus on the legal relationships between people and the protection of a person's right

• criminal law

• civil law

information about the patient must remain private and can be shared only with other members of the patient's health care team

• confidentiality

• health care records

a list of patient's rights, implemented by the

Department of Health and Human

Services, that must be recognized and honored by health care providers

• Patient Protection and Affordable CAre Act

• Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities

to shorten, decrease in size, or draw together, an agreement between two or more persons

• contract

• living will

deals with the wrongs against a person, property, or society

• criminal law

• civil law

slander or libel; a false statement that causes ridicule or damage to a reputation

• tort

• defamation