Legal-Ethical Medical Issues

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Legal-Ethical Medical Issues

• Medical Jeopardy

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• She said over the loudspeaker that Dr. Ricken is
  nuts! She might be guilty of this..

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• what is slander?

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• Three ingredients to the bill of rights of
  patients

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• They have a right to know what they are being
  treated for
• To be treated with respect
• To have questions about their care answered in
  plain language
• To be informed of any major or surgical
  procedures to be done
• To refuse non emergency care
• Etc. etc.

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• You do not want to be given any heroic emergency
  care should you need it. You should request and
  sign this document.

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• What is a Living Will?

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• Three ingredients of a contract

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• What is offer, acceptance and consideration?

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• Malpractice is actually a case of this

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• What is negligence or failure to treat or
  failure to diagnose?

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• Of the two types of courthouses, the one you
  would find malpractice cases being handled in

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• What are civil courthouses?

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• The doctor-patient relationship is special and
  characterized by this special description

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• It is privileged meaning, no one else has the
  right to discover what was disclosed in this
  communication, even the law.

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• A Texas University located in College Station

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• What is A and M University?

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• The ASVAB exam is a competency exam administered
  and written by this organization

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• What are the U.S. Military Services?

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• For patients in a coma or who are incompetent to
  make their own decisions, a family should compose
  this legal document

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• What is a durable power of attorney?

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• The only exception to being qualified to be a
  trustee to make medical decisions for a family
  member by way of a durable power of attorney, is
  that they cannot be..

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• Heirs to the members estate

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• Give an example of professional standards and
  how good a professional has to be.

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• The professional used reasonable judgement
  consistent with fifty percent of health care
  workers in that field

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• This country has Seoul

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• What is South Korea?

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• We have all engaged in contracts of this type
  even without signing anything

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• What are oral or implied contracts?

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• In legal terms, payment for services is described
  as this part of the contract

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• What is consideration?

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• When getting a patient to sign a consent form,
  the nurse or doctor must be engaged in a dialogue
  to help explain/answer questions they might have.
  This method is known as this

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• What is informed consent?

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• You rob a bank the type of court you will be
  tried in is this

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• What is criminalcourt?

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• Identify four types of abuse

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• What is physical, emotional, sexual and verbal,
  psychological, etc.?

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• What is assault and battery?

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• The improper touching of a minor

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• The surgeon operates without informedconsent.
  He/she could be charged with this.

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• What is assault with a deadly weapon?

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• After the hurricane, the health department is
  concerned about cholera and plague developing.
  What might have caused this concern?

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• The mixing of drinking water with poop water

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• Health care workers should understand a patients
  pain but not succumb to it. This characteristic
  is known as

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• Empathy, not sympathy

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• The ability to use good judgement in being
  sensitive to a patients needs and feelings
  without being told what they feel is called this
  quality

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• What is discretion?

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• It means, a civil wrong type of lawsuit

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• What is a tort?

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• This characteristic of a healthcare worker is a
  virtue because it means you are careful in what
  you say or do being sensitive to a persons
  feelings and vulnerabilities

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• What is tact?

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• Two forms of defamation of character

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• What are libel and slander?

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• By revealing information of a confidential
  nature, about a patient to someone not authorized
  to receive such information, a healthcare worker
  might be guilty of this

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• What is invasion of privacy?

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• Exposing a patients body parts unnecessarily to
  unauthorized persons in the course of medical
  treatment might be illegal and called this

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• What is invasion of privacy?

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• The actor who portrayed Stuart Littles father on
  the movie series about a cute orphaned mouse

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• Who is Hugh Laurie, aka Dr. Gregory House, M.D.

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• The former Senator from Tennessee who died at the
  Alamo

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• Who was Davy Crockett?

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• You need your thyroid gland treated. Who you
  gonna call?

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• An endocrinologist

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• To apply for all financial aid and also to be
  considered for any scholarship, all students must
  file this application with the government in
  their senior year

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• What is FASFA? (Free application for student
  financial aid) online or in paper form

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• Three advantages of using a community/junior
  college vs. a four year school

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• Cost, convenience, living at home, can work in
  your neighborhood, courses often online, courses
  transferable for college credit, easy admission,
  etc.

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• Three differences between high school and four
  year colleges

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• Cost, living at school, no attendance, study what
  you want to study, more competition, can be
  excluded for low grades, variable hours of
  classes, may get shut out of courses, easily
  transferable, often far from home, may require
  commuting

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• True/false Pre-med is a major course of study

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• False pre-med is a track involving four courses
  (bio, physics, inorganic and organic chemistry).
  You must pick a major despite this track of study.

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• The only college in Texas that requires a double
  major

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• Houston Baptist University.

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• This private college is in Waco, Texas which is
  the home of Dr. Peppers worldwide headquarters

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• This college is in Lubbock, Texas and is the home
  of the Red Raiders

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• What is Texas Tech University

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• Youll have to commute downtown to find these
  Cougars

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• What is the University of Houston

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• This specialist has the O.D. degree

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• What is an optometrist?

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• Three years of graduate study in biomechanics and
  kinesiology are included to train one to be one
  of these

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• What is a physical therapist?

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• While Greys Anatomy is located in this city,
  House, M.D. is located in this city

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• What is Seattle, Washington and Princeton, New
  Jersey?

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• What does Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford,
  Brown, Dartmouth and Univ of Pennsylvania all
  have in common?

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• They are all Ivy League Schools

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• Which of the following is/are NOT a virtue for a
  healthcare worker?
• Tact
• Sympathy
• Avoiding discretion
• Acceptance of criticism

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• Sympathy and avoidingdiscretion. Drs. And
  nurses should always be empathetic and always use
  discretion (good, sensitive judgement)

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• A king of torts would likely have this degree

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• A J.D. (a personal injury attorney for civil
  injury cases)

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• Dentists, psychiatrists and anesthesiologists
  have a particularly high incidence of this

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• Chemical dependence problems and suicide

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• HIPPA are a group of Federal laws governing this

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• The privacy of patients and their records
• (Health Insurance Privacy and Portability Act)

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• The approval of drugs and their testing for
  efficacy is governed by this Federal bureau

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• What is the FDA (Food and drug administration)

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• The control of narcotics both legally and
  illegally is the responsibility of this bureau

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• What is the DEA (drug enforcement administration)?

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• The University of Texas has its main campus here
  while its medical school is here?

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• What is Austin, Houston?

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• A radiology technician probably has this number
  of years of college

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• One to two years

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• A physical therapy aide probably has this number
  of years of college

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• One

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• A dentist has this number of years of training
  after high school

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• Eight

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• An optometrist has this number of years of
  training after high school

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• Eight

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• A veterinarian has this number of years of
  training after high school

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• Eight

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• A nurse has this number of years of training
  after high school

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• Four or less (depends on whether they get a BSN
  or just the RN and pass the license exam without
  the BSN)

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• A D.C. is also known as this

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• Doctor of Chiropractic

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• The two courses required before applying to
  nursing schools

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• Microbiology and Anatomy/physiology

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• Doctor Rickens first name

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• Jeff

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• The W.D. degree is characteristic of this
  profession

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• Voodoo (Witch Doctor) lol

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In the French film it says finis but the
English version would say this
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