Medical Law and Ethics Chapter 1 Key Words

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Health care practitioners
Those who are trained to administer medical or health care to patients
Litigious
Prone to engage in lawsuits
Plaintiff
The person bringing charges in a lawsuit
Defendant
The person or party against whom criminal or civil charges are brought in a lawsuit
Liable
Accountable under the law
Precedent
Decisions made by judges in the various courts the decide rule of law and apply to future cases, even though they were not enacted by a legislature; also known as case law
Summary judgement
A decision made by a court in a lawsuit in response to a motion that pleads there is no basis for a trial
Fraud
Dishonest or deceitful practices in depriving or attempting to deprive another of his or her rights
Law
Rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as biding or enforced by a controlling authority
Ethics
Standards of behavior developed as a result of one's concept of right and wrong
Moral values
One's personal concept of right and wrong, formed through the influence of the family, culture, and society
Code of ethics
A list of principles intended to govern behavior-here the behavior of those entrusted with providing care to the sick
Ethics guidelines
Publications that detail a wide variety of ethical situations that professionals (in this case health care practitioners) might face in their work and offer principles for dealing with the situations in an ethical manner
Hippocratic oath
A pledge for phsicians, developed by the greek physician hippocrates circa 400BC
American Medical Association principles
Code of ethics for members of the american medical association written in 1847