Medical Law and Ethics

To write untruths about someone else and publish it would be

• slander

• Libel

• Bullying

• causation

A type of law that involves the legal relationship between two people and their rights is called

• civil

• criminal

• Accidental

• Malfeasance

To threaten to injure another human being is considered

• Battery

• Physical

• Assault

• Libel

The unlawful touching of another person without their consent is known as

• battery

• assault

• libel

• slander

Permission granted by a patient after being informed of all possible outcomes, risk, and benefits is called

• libel

• informed consent

• implied consent

• consent

Consent given by a patient when they allow you to help them up in bed without saying much is known as

• battery

• informed consent

• implied consent

• assault

Failure to care when there is a duty to act under standards of care

• Malpractice

• Negligence

• battery

• punishment

A wrongful act that does not involve a contract

• malpractice

• Negligence

• tort

• abuse

Federal Law protecting the privacy of patient-specific health care information

• Good Samaritan

• HIPPA

• slander

• safe haven law

leaving a patient after care has been initiated but before it has been completed or handed off

• tort

• restraint

• abandonment

• abuse