Transcript Ethics Review

Ethics Review
Chapter 3
Review
• Ethics deals with what?
• What is morally right and wrong
• The ethical standards established by a profession
are administered by?
• Peer review
• Physicians have nine principles that are the basis
of The American Medical Association(AMA) Code
of Medical Ethics, what should a physician do?
Name 2
• Have compassion and respect
• Abide by ethical and moral standards
Review
• What is The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act?
• Established a system of organ and tissue
donor identification so that individuals can
ensure that when they die they will be
identified as a donor
• A document for the end-of-life care, written in
advance when a person is competent
• Living will
Review
• An appointed proxy(agent) that must be aware of
your wishes?
• Durable Power of Attorney
• What a DNR?
• Patients have the right to the “do not resuscitate”
• What is criminal law?
• Deals with offenses against citizens
• What is civil law:
• Disputes between individuals or
organization(malpractice)
Review
• What is a Tort:
• A number of actions done by one person or group of
persons that causes injury to another
• What is the number one malpractice tort?
• Negligence
• What is slander?
• Refers to oral remarks
• What is assault?
• A deliberate attempt or threat to touch without consent
• What is battery?
• Unauthorized touching
Review
• Define defamation of character?
• False statements(regarding a patient)
• When should a patient sign a consent(release)
form?
• Within 24 hours
• Name some reportable(CDC) disease or
infections?
• STI’s, influenza, chickenpox, hepititis
Review
• What are considered scheduled 1 drugs?
• High tendency for abuse and have no accepted(LSD,
Heroin)
• What are considered scheduled 5 drugs?
• Very low potential for abuse(cough syrup)
• Why are patient’s medical records so important?
• They can be inspected at any time
• List some examples of inappropriate documentation in
a patient’s chart, and can be grounds for a lawsuit
• Name calling, imaginary problems, lying
Review
• What is an emancipated minor?
• No longer under the care, custody, or supervision
of parents
• The medical assistant is responsible to know and
understand consent forms, but who is
responsible for the patients signature and
consent?
• The physician
• Where should the consent form be filed?
• In the patient's chart
Review
• Name a few statements about sexual
harassment?
• The victim has a responsibility to establish
that the harasser's conduct is unwelcome
• Everyone has the right to be free from sexual
discrimination
• What is The Good Samaritan Act?
• This protects physicians who gives emergency
care from liability for civil damages
Review
• What is a deposition?
• An oral testimony and may be taken in the attorney’s
office or physician’s office in the presence of a court
reporter
• What is a subpoena?
• A documentation to appear in court with patients
records
• What is a statute of limitations?
• A law that designates a specific limit of time during
which a claim may be filed in malpractice suits or in the
collection of bills
• Medical malpractice must be brought within how many
years of the date when the injury was discovered
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Medical records are ______ documents
Legal
Medical records are property of?
The physician
What does abandonment mean?
A physician who has undertaken care of a
patient(may be sued)