Medical Law And Ethics

Question 1

Five ethical issues in healthcare

Answer 1

DNR orders
 Doctor, impatient confidentiality
 malpractice negligence torts
 Access to care
Patient assisted death

Question 2

Irreversible coma

Answer 2

 a coma or persistent, veg state from which the person is not expected to recover

Question 3

Persistent vegetated state

Answer 3

No awareness can still stimulate awareness, opening eye, normal sleeping, waking periods, sucking, chewing, coughing, gagging swallowing 

Question 4

Terminally ill

Answer 4

Near that where there is no possibility of your

Question 5

Medical malpractice

Answer 5

Surgical errors or unnecessary surgery prescribing the wrong meds not ordering proper test

Question 6

Medical negligence

Answer 6

Failing to complete his or her task failing to properly monitor vital signs  administering wrong meds

Question 7

Torts

Answer 7

 is a wrongful act that result in injury to one person by another

Question 8

Battery

Answer 8

Touching of one person by another patient must give consent to full knowledge of the procedure and the risk in my present 

Question 9

Defamation of character

Answer 9

 consist of injury to another persons, reputation name, or character through spoken or written words

Question 10

Slander

Answer 10

 the action or crime of making a false spoken statement, damaging to a persons reputation

Question 11

Libel

Answer 11

Published false statement that is damaging to a person‘s reputation a written defamation 

Question 12

Informed consent

Answer 12

A process of communication between the patient and his or her healthcare provider that often leads to agreements or permission for care

Question 13

Implied consent

Answer 13

 generally provided through action patient actions is giving consent

Question 14

Verbal consent

Answer 14

 where a patient states their consent to a procedure verbally, but does not sign any written form