ch 11 Flashcards
_________ is a principle requiring that all persons be treated equally and fairly.
Distributive justice
What type of consent is most commonly an issue in a medical malpractice case?
Informed consent
“Ghost surgery” refers to what practice?
Procedures performed by a substitute physician
What is the most significant legal problem with relying on oral consent?
It is hard to prove.
A patient has a right to refuse to consent to medical treatment because
treatment without consent is battery
Medical paternalism involves _______________.
physicians making decisions they deem best for a patients capable of making their own decisions
People, often believing that they know what is best for another, often make decisions that they believe are in that person’s best interest.
A proper informed consent form must include all of the following except:
Technical name of the medical procedure
____ decision making can be affected by one’s disabilities, mental status, maturity, or incapacity to make decisions.
Autonomous
__________ addresses difficult issues such as the nature of life, the nature of death, what sort of life is worth living, what constitutes murder, how we should treat people who are especially vulnerable, and the responsibilities that we have to other human beings.
Bioethics
Most states now apply which standard to questions about what risks should be disclosed to the patient for informed consent?
What reasonable patients would want to know
__________ are standards or codes of conduct established by the membership of a specific profession.
Professional ethics
Proof of a patient’s consent is a defense against what type of lawsuit?
Battery
Implied consent is most applicable in which of the following situations?
During an emergency when the patient is unconsious
At minimum, a consent form should include all of the following except:
List of the procedure(s) in medical terms
An individual’s view of what is right and wrong based on his or her experience is _________.
microethics
