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1
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To protect people, correct injustice, and compensate for injury.

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Goal of Medical Law

2
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Human desire to do good and avoid evil.

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Natural law

3
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Affect the individual rather than society as a whole.

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Civil law

4
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Enforced by fed/state legislatures to uphold social order and protect the rights of individuals.

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Statutory law

5
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Enacted by agencies under government. (OSHA)

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Administrative law

6
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Court made law based on custom and usage.

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Common law

7
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Intentional and unintentional wrongful acts resulting in injury to a person or property.

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Torts

8
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Assault and physical injury through force or violence, Battery, Confidentiality

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Intentional tort

9
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Negligence through breach, harm, causation.

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unintentional tort

10
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Failure to meet standard of care

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Breach

11
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Injury suffered by patient

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Harm

12
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Failure of patients care was cause of injury

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Causation

13
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Right to prevent unauthorized contact is either written, verbal, or implied.

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Informed consent

14
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Legal responsibility for consequences of one’s actions.

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Liability

15
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Employer held responsible

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Master servent

16
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Hospital held responsible

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Ostensible agency

17
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Thing speaks for itself

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Res ipsa loquitur

18
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Attending physician is held responsible

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Borrowed servant

19
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Chaperones, policy and procedure, scope of practice, malpractice, guidelines

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Protection against lawsuits

20
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Study of duty moral obligation and taking the right action

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Deontology

21
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Study of evidence of design and purpose of nature

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Teleology

22
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Duty to promote good

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Beneficence

23
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Above all do no harm

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Nonmaleficence